Music of the Sudan: The Role of Song and Dance in Dinka Society, Vol. 2: Women's Dance Songs

Music is a dignified expression for the Dinka tribes of Southern Sudan. These are the songs of women. Scholar Dr. Francis Deng, himself a Dinka, explains that a woman often creates her identity through her description of the identity of her husband, often “prais[ing] her husband and through him herself with surprising snobbery.” Extensive liner notes include English translations.

Track Listing

101	Nainai	Amou Nyok	04:08
102	I Sent My Message	Amou Nyok	02:57
103	The Age Set of Deng	Wife of the Paramount Chief Deng Majok	02:36
104	The Youth of Abyei	Dinka women singing and clapping	01:38
105	I Have a Request	Dinka girls singing and clapping	03:45
106	Our Age-Set Is an Age-Set	Dinka girls singing and clapping	00:41
107	I Tell the Son of Ring	Dinka woman, unaccompanied	00:45
201	The Dream	One of the Paramount Chief's wives, unaccompanied (Dinka)	03:48
202	Our Circle	Paramount Chief's wife, unaccompanied (Dinka)	03:54
203	Unidentified song from the upper Nile 1	Soloist and chorus with handclapping, Ngok Dinka, Upper Nile	02:03
204	Unidentified song from the upper Nile 2	Mixed chorus with handclapping, Ngok Dinka, Upper Nile	00:53
205	Unidentified song from the upper Nile 3	Singer, unaccompanied, Ngok Dinka, Upper Nile	01:18
206	Song from the Upper Nile (1)	Female singer, unaccompanied, Ngok Dinka, Upper Nile	02:31
207	Song from the Upper Nile (2)	Male singer, unaccompanied, Ngok Dinka, Upper Nile	01:41
208	The Spreading Horns	One of the Paramount Chief's wives, unaccompanied (Dinka)	04:38