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During the colonial ages Senegal was colonized by France and many, though not all, Senegalese identified as French instead of any African ethnicity. [citation needed] Post-independence, the philosophy of negritude arose, which espoused the idea that the griot traditions of Senegal were as valid, classical and meaningful as French classical music.
A group of musicians at the village of Mbour, playing a kora, a gongoba drum and a guitar.. The Wolof, the largest ethnic group in Senegal, have a distinctive musical tradition that, along with the influence of neighboring Fulani, Tukulor, Serer, Jola, and Mandinka cultures, has contributed greatly to popular Senegalese music, and to West African music in general.
The akonting ([ə'kɔntiŋ], [1] or ekonting in French transliteration) is the folk lute of the Jola people, found in Senegal, Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau in West Africa.It is a string instrument with a skin-headed gourd body, two long melody strings, and one short drone string, akin to the short fifth "thumb string" on the five-string banjo.
In 1992, World Circuit reissued the 1978 Paris sessions on one CD, and in 1993 Stern's Music, another London-based world music label, released Bamba, a compilation of the band's 1981 albums. In 1998, the band's debut album, along with several bonus tracks recorded between 1970 and 1971, were released in the Netherlands as N'Wolof .
Frå Senegal til Setesdal is a world music album made by a quartet consisting of Norwegian folk musicians Kirsten Bråten Berg and Bjørgulv Straume, Senegalese folk musician Solo Cissokho and Ivorian folk musician Kouame Sereba. It was released on Grappa in 1997. Berg and Sereba performed the vocals.
Wagëblë released their second album, Senegal, in 2005, for which they won best album at Sénégal’s Annual Hip Hop Awards that same year. [citation needed] The Senegal album Tour launched Wagëblë's international career, and for the first time the group played live shows to foreign audiences across the globe, in Norway, Switzerland, Sweden, France, the U.S, Gambia and Guinea.
The Rough Guide to the Music of Senegal is a world music compilation album originally released in 2013. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the release presents an overview of the music of Senegal on Disc One, and contains a "bonus" Disc Two highlighting Daby Balde. The album was compiled by Daniel Rosenberg and was produced by ...
Coumba Gawlo Seck is a Senegalese singer-songwriter and composer who was born in February 1972 in Tivaouane.She is the second best selling Senegalese singer in Senegal after Youssou N'Dour.
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