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The music of the Cameroon includes diverse traditional and modern musical genres. The best-known contemporary genre is makossa , a popular style that has gained fans across Africa , and its related dance craze bikutsi .
Played in southeastern Cameroon by the Kwasio and Basaa peoples. Clapperless bells from Bamenda; Struck bars: played in southwestern Cameroon by the Basaa, Kwasio, and other ethnic groups, and also by the Mbum of northern Cameroon. A long piece of bamboo or log (pilon in Mbum) is struck by multiple people using a pairs of sticks.
Prior to the independence of Cameroon that would lead to makossa's creation, there was the classical music of the Bamoun Kingdom. [25] The Bamileke and the Bamoun are two ethnic groups that are related. [26] Mangambeu is a traditional music genre that is related to bolobo in terms of rhythm. [27]
This is a list of musicians and musical groups from Cameroon This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Music organizations based in Cameroon (1 C) Cameroonian musicians (8 C, 17 P) S. Cameroonian songs (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Music of Cameroon"
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.
A musician plays traditional African music during the closing ceremony of French RECAMP-concept (reinforcement of African peacekeeping capacities) in Douala, November 23, 2006. Religious holidays in Cameroon include: Christian: Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Pentecost, Ascension Thursday and Palm Sunday
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 ...