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Songe topical songs

Various Artists
Kanyoka people, southern Democratic Republic of Congo. Chibanda Badouin, with his accordion and friends with guitar and bottle, at Elisabethville (now Lubumbashi).
Kanyoka people, southern Democratic Republic of Congo. Chibanda Badouin, with his accordion and friends with guitar and bottle, at Elisabethville (now Lubumbashi).
Photograph by Hugh Tracey, January 26, 1952. Courtesy of the International Library of African Music.
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Ngoi Nono, Kabongo Anastase, and several friends accompany their singing on two guitars, a struck bottle, and a rattle. They are Songe, from the Kabongo area of what is now southern Democratic Republic of Congo (Tracey 1973).

Release Info

Catalog Number

ILAMTR020

Year(s) Released

1957

Label(s)/Collection(s)

International Library of African Music (ILAM)

Genre(s)

World

Instrument(s)

Bottle, struck, Guitar, Rattle, Vocals, Whistle

Language(s)

Songe

Recording Era(s)

1950s

Credit(s)

Hugh Tracey - Compiler, Liner Notes Editor, Liner Notes, Recorder