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Mangambeu is a traditional music genre that is related to bolobo in terms of rhythm. [27] Bikutsi is similar, with a 6/8 time signature and is influenced by the Beti culture. [ 28 ] The inspirations range from the history of war connections (being that traditional bikutsi is based on a war rhythm) to entire kingdoms. [ 29 ]
Ambasse bey or ambas-i-bay is a style of folk music and dance from Cameroon. The music is based on commonly available instruments, especially guitar, with percussion provided by sticks and bottles. [1] The music is faster-paced than assiko. John Hall described its rhythm as the one of a moving broom.
Dance in Cameroon is an integral part of the tradition, religion, and socialising of the country's people. Cameroon has more than 200 traditional dances, each associated with a different event or situation. Colonial authorities and Christian missionaries discouraged native dances as threats to security and pagan holdovers. However, after ...
The ethnicities of Cameroon include an estimated 250 distinct ethnic groups in five regional-cultural divisions. An estimated 38% of the population are Western highlanders–Semi-Bantu or grassfielders including the Bamileke, Bamum, and many smaller Tikar groups in the northwest. 12% are coastal tropical forest peoples, including the Bassa, Duala, and many smaller groups in the southwest.
Timbrh (pronounced tim-BER) is an instrument belonging in lamellophone class, traditional to the Mambila people of Cameroon. [1] The wooden base are generally made of thin woods or hollow raffia palm stems. The lamellas of timbrh, which can be in numbers up to 20, consists of hard leaf veins of raffia palms. It also features a triangular ...
Cameroon has a rich and diverse culture made up of a mix of about 250 indigenous populations and just as many languages and customs. The country is nicknamed "Little Africa" as geographically, Cameroon consists of coastline, mountains, grass plains, forest, rainforest and desert, all of the geographical regions in Africa in one country.
Mvet: a unique bar zither found only in central Africa (Cameroon, Gabon, and a small part of the DR Congo). Arched harp: very widespread in Africa, and likely originated in North Africa several millennia ago. Typically with pentatonic tuning and 5-6 strings in Cameroon, and is especially prevalent in northern Cameroon.
Cameroon folk dance. Popular bikutsi first appeared in the 1940s with the recording of Anne-Marie Nzié. Some twenty years later, the style was electrified with the addition of keyboards and guitars. The most popular performer of this period was Messi Me Nkonda Martin, frontman for Los Camaroes and known as "the father of modern bikutsi music". [2]