The Music of the Diola-Fogny of the Casamance, Senegal

Separated from the northern part of Senegal by the nation of Gambia and involved in a recent low–level insurgency against the Senegalese government, the Casamance region remains culturally and musically distinctive.

This field recording is a journey into the auditory world of the Jola people (Diola in French transliteration). The album includes incidental music, work songs, marriage and funeral songs, praise singing, and spontaneous recordings of a futamp circumcision ceremony recorded from several different positions in the crowd. Many of the musical styles presented here, which were recorded in the early 1960s, remain essentially the same today. Liner notes include photos and descriptions of Jola culture, details of the recording contexts, and annotated lyrics for several tracks.

Track Listing

101	Individual "Praise-Singing" Bakari Badji	03:46
102	Cultivating in Peanut Fields Bakari Badji and field workers	03:53
103	Cultivating in Rice Fields Bakari Badji and field workers	04:13
104	Bugur - Marriage Celebration: Singing / Drumming / Over-All Crowd Jinkoly Sane with singers and wedding celebrants, Dakar	12:01
105	Pre-Circumcision Dance Celebration Futampaf festival participants	02:06
106	Parade Singing - at Circumcision Fete (Bitibit) Futampaf festival participants, Biti Biti	06:12
107	Parade Singing - at Circumcision Fete (Tandiin) Futampaf festival participants, Tandine	03:09
108	Funeral Singing (Guimal) Singers and drummers at a funeral, Guinal	07:37
109	Funeral Singing (Soutikin) Aka Jeme and chorus, Sitoukene	02:08
110	Funeral Singing (Nyankiit) Singers and drummers at a funeral, Niankitte	03:05