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The urbanization of Cameroon has had a major influence on the country's music. Migration to the city of Yaoundé, for example, was a major cause for the popularization of bikutsi music. During the 1950s, bars sprang up across the city to accommodate the influx of new inhabitants and soon became a symbol for Cameroonian identity in the face of ...
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.
Bantowbol or bantubol is a style of music from Cameroon. The genre is derived from Cameroonian folk music. The name bantowbol is partially derived from bal, a term for accordion playing. The principal musicians of bantowbol are Gibraltar Drakus and Nkondo Si Tony.
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]
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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
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]
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 ...