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Their folk music has played an important part in the development of Nigerian music, contributing such elements as the Goje, a one-stringed fiddle. There are two broad categories of traditional Hausa music: rural folk music and urban court music. They introduced the African pop culture genre that is still popular today.
Video footage of a Guérewol performance Toubou musicians at a formal ceremony. The music of Niger has developed from the musical traditions of a mix of ethnic groups; Hausa, the Zarma-Songhai, Tuareg, Fula, Kanuri, Toubou, Diffa Arabs and Gurma and the Boudouma from Lac Chad.
[2] [3] It is used by the Hausa people to play traditional music. [2] The instrument has a wooden soundbox in the shape of an oval, covered with goatskin or duiker-skin and a neck that goes through both sides of the bowl. From the butt, the strings run across the bowl, and the loose ends are tied to tuning strings (which are wrapped around the ...
The people of the North are known for complex percussion instrument music, the one-stringed goje, and a strong praise song vocal tradition.Under Muslim influence since the 14th century, Hausa music uses free-rhythmic improvisation and the Pentatonic scale, similar to other Muslim Sahelian tribes throughout West Africa, such as the Bambara, Kanuri, Fulani and Songhai.
The Kakaki, also known as "Waza" or "Malakat" is a three- to four-meter-long metal trumpet used in African Hausa. The instrument is also known as malakat or mäläkät (መለከት) in Ethiopia and Eritrea. [1] Kakaki is a long metal trumpet used in Hausa traditional ceremonial music. It could be anything from three metres in length.
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.
Folk and Traditional Music of the Western Continents. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. Fujie, Linda, James T. Koetting, David P. McAllester, David B. Reck, John M. Schechter, Mark Slobin and R. Anderson Sutton (1992). Jeff Todd Titan (ed.). Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples (Second ed.). New York ...
Groups to discuss Hausa music, literature and video films in an increasingly interconnected world. [22] This attracted a series of debates centered on the relationship between popular culture and Muslim Hausa traditional values. In 2003 he organized an international conference on Hausa video films, the first of its kind in Nigeria.