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Kora sheet music (fragment of the score of One Thousand Sources, for solo kora, by Jacques Burtin). As part of the oral tradition of West Africa, music for the kora was not written until the 20th century. Ethnomusicologists were the only ones to record some traditional airs in the normal grand staff method, using the G clef and the F clef.
Sona Jobarteh (born 1983 [1]) is a Gambian multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer.She is from one of the five principal kora-playing griot families of West Africa, and is the first female professional kora player [1] [2] to come from a griot family.
The kora is a 21-string instrument of West African music, similar to the harp or lute, with origins in the 13th-century during the Mali Empire. A kora was historically played only by a jeli (plural jeliw )—also known as a griot [ b ] —a member of a hereditary class of musicians and storytellers responsible for conveying cultural history ...
Chamber Music is an album by Ballaké Sissoko and Vincent Segal.It was released in 2009 by the French label No Format! and in 2011 by the U.S. label Six Degrees Records.The result of a close collaboration between the two friends and musicians, it melds Sissoko's traditional kora playing with Segal's trip hop infused approach to the classical cello.
Contemporary styles of music in West Africa have been influenced by American music, African jazz and gospel music. [2] The forced migration of Africans to the Americas as a result of the transatlantic slave trade gave rise to kaiso [ 3 ] music, which has influenced the sounds of Calypso , [ 4 ] a style with major popularity throughout West Africa.
African Arts Magazine published Susan Pevar's recounting of the kora making process, and Sing Out! magazine published her article discussing the kora and its music, complete with a acetate recording of a Bai Konte performance. All of these educational materials, combined with multiple regional and national Television and radio feature programs ...
He spent his childhood in a traditional Gambian village, in a household filled with kora music. Though his father was a master kora player, in griot tradition a father does not teach his own children the instrument. When Foday was nine, his father sent him to live with master kora teacher Sekou Suso in the village of Pasamasi, Wuli District.
The Mandé Sound, with which Mamadou Sidiki Diabaté is often associated, is one of several regional varieties of Afro-pop.Mandé is the broad cultural designation of several ethnic groups in West Africa, including (though not exclusively) the Mandinka or Malinke, Sarakole, Bambara, and Dyula, residing primarily in Gambia, Senegal, Guinea, Mali, the northern regions of Ivory Coast, and the ...