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[1] Gongey Gonjey music is found amongst the Dagomba people of Northern Ghana, which is in West Africa [3] and is known to the West through modern proponents such as Kenge Kenge [4] and the ethnomusicological archival activities of Nana Kimati Dinizulu, son of the late Nana Opare Dinizulu.
The missionaries, with the cooperation of the imperial administration, were probably most directly responsible for the modification, suppression, or even disappearance of many aspects of traditional culture and music in most of the African societies (Hanna, 1965). everything African or indigenous was purported as bad and contrary to God's will.
The goje (the Hausa name for the instrument) is one of the many names for a variety of one or one-stringed fiddles from West Africa, played by groups such as the Yoruba in Sakara music and west African groups that inhabit the Sahel. Snakeskin or lizard skin covers a gourd bowl, and a horsehair string is suspended on bridge.
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A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. [1] It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including classical music. Although in many cases violins and fiddles are essentially synonymous, the style of the music played may determine specific construction differences between fiddles and ...
Thompson was born in Orange County, North Carolina on December 9, 1918. [1] His father John, a fiddler, and uncle Walter, a banjo player, performed at local square dances and corn shuckings. [2] At seven years-old, when Thompson took up the fiddle himself, he closely observed his father's techniques which were rooted in old-time African ...
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