Africa and AfroAmerican Music


Anthro 138T

Spring Quarter 2008

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RealAudio examples of music heard in class

Part One: Africa

Malagasy Realaudio
Possession Music: Antandroy Male and Female singers malagasy5
Two note flutes and singing Masikoro malagasy6
Singing w/2 bows & handclapping and bugle " African style malagasy7
Leg xylophone Masikoro malagasy8
Lokanga Voatavo Betsileo malagasy9
Mpilalao Merina Violins, drums chorus malagasy10
Mpilalao with accordion malagasy11
Idiochord Valiha played by Sylvestre Randafison malagasy12
Valiha, 18 Low tension metal strings Blind musician malagasy13
Valiha played by Mama Sana "Rabereha" malagasy14
Mama Sana "Rahahivelo Lost his zebu" malagasy15
Mama Sana Somodara Demanding woman malagasy16
Mana SanaBe Golzy With umbrella not raining malagasy17
Modern Mpilalao with Valiha: Oay Lahy E 1938 Paris malagasy18
Virtuoso Valiha Rakotozafy Samy Faly Each is Happy malagasy19
Modern Ensemble: Akombaliha: Salama'Nareo (Greeting) malagasy20
South Africa
San -Kung Bushmen Kalahari Dance music (Women) bushm1
San - Kung Bushmen Kalahari Men's dance bushm2
San sejwalejwale (way back) in South African style realaudio
inkulu into ezakwenzeka (something bad is going to happen) realaudio
incaba ka ncofula (the fortress of ncofula) realaudio
Zulu warriors go into battle southafrica01
Mbube: Solomon Linda and Evening Birds 1939 southafrica02
Ladysmith Black Mambazo: Nansi Imali (Here is the money) southafrica03
Marabi -Noise khanyile and the jo'burg city stars southafrica04
Marabi bulawayo sweet rhythms band - skokiaan southafrica05
Kwela style - West-nkosi Mazuzu southafrica06
New Pop - yvonne chaka chaka - umqombothi southafrica07
moses taiwa molelekwa - marabi a rremogolo southafrica08
Modern SouthAfrican Jazz - Bheki Mseleku - Angola southafrica09
Mbaqanga- Kaputeni southafrica10
Mozambique - Chopi
Timbila solo -introduction to Ngodo movement chopi01
Ngodo movement with timbila solo introduction chopi02
Another Ngodo movement chopi03
Ngodo movement with singing chopi04
Complex melody movement chopi05
Zimbabwe
Shona grinding song zimbab01
Shona dancing and drumming zimbab02
Ngororombe zimbab03
Ngororombe with drums zimbab04
Ngororombe with dancing zimbab05a
Ngororombe in the beer gardens zimbab05b
njari players zimbab05
Tonga People: Matepe ensemble zimbab06
Mbira dza Vadzimu - kutsinhira and kushaura zimbab08
Shona: Mbira dza Vadzimu group zimbab07
Shona music with possesion zimbab09
Urban township music zimbab11
READING: Dreams and Trance in Zimbabwe 
Malawi
Four man xylophone malawi01
Central Africa
Pygmies
Ba-banzele whistle and singing pygmies03
Gabon Pygmies singing group pygmies01
Gabon Pygmies singing and drumming pygmies02
Kagali Pygmies horn band horn01
Non Pygmies
Broto horns Cameroons brass04
Banda Linda flute band horn02
Banda Linda horn band horn03
Xylophone and mbira central-africa02
Two madimba and drums central-africa03
Talking drums central-africa01
Talking drums -2 central-africa04
Pluriarch - Western Congo central-africa05
Mvet Cameroons central-africa06
Soukous
Before Soukous: Masanga by Mwenda soukous01
Bejos by Franco and the O.K. Jazz soukous02
Mario by Franco soukous03
Reference by Papa Wemba soukous01
Congotronics congotronics
East Africa
Ethiopia
Coptic Christian Church Detebras - chant for Christmas ethiopia01
Love song with krar lyre ethiopia02
Modern love song - - Ere Mela ethiopia03
Tezeta - nostalgic love song ethiopia04
Rwanda Urundi
Tutsi song for the departure of the mwami tutsi01
Love song - lama tutsi02
Song with Inanga zither tutsi03
Night praise song with inanga zither tutsi04
Royal drums 1. Zirasuka tutsi05
Royal drums 2. Uruchina tutsi06
Royal drums 3. Agasiga tutsi07
Uganda
Toro horns and drums uganda01
Soga budongo ensemble uganda02
Ganda Amadinda ensemble uganda03
Ganda Abalere ba Kabaka uganda04
Ganda Enanga harp uganda05
Zanzibar
Zanzibar Tarab zanzibar
Other things
Kenya: Kipsigis. Chemirocha kipsigis
Chad Dilla Harps chad01
Congo: Babembe horns congo01
Chad Toupouri Gourouna chad02
WEST AFRICA
Nigeria
Yoruba: Igbin drum ensemble nigeria01
Yoruba: Bata song for Ogun nigeria02
Yoruba: Bata song for shango nigeria03
Yoruba: Dundun wedding music nigeria04
Yoruba Street Bands: Apala nigeria06
Yoruba Street Bands: Fuji nigeria05
Yoruba: New Fuji Garbage nigeria07
Yoruba Aguidigbo nigeria08
Yoruba: Kokoro nigeria09
Hausa - Fanfare for the Emir of Sokoto nigeria10
Kakaki solo with talking nigeria11
Hausa Minstrel playing gurumi nigeria12
Jos Raft zither nigeria13
Hausa Player of obati nigeria14
Malinke - Wolof - Peul - Casamance
Djembe drum group malinke13
Griot playing halam Praise song malinke15
Griot playing halam (inst patterns) malinke16
Griot playing halam (inst patterns -2) malinke17
Griot playing halam (inst patterns -3) malinke18
Ali Farke Toure malinke08 
Omou Sangare malinke09
West African Rhythms 
Bariba rattles realaudio
Dahomey music for workers realaudio
Dahomey Water drum and flute group realaudio
After Midterm 
Ghana
Women's water drum group ghana01
Fanti: bamboo orchestra ghana02
Fanti: Horn and drums ghana03
Fanti: brass band ghana04
Adowa dance ghana04a
Ashanti/Akan : Fondondron ghana05
Ashanti/Akan Fondonfron 2nd example ghana06
Dagbon: Music to make the horses dance ghana06
Dagbon: Jera. Men's circle dance ghana07
Lobi Dagarti: xylophone music ghana08
Lobi Dagarti two xylophones with drums ghana09
Malinke - Wolof - Peul - Casamance
Malinke water drum ensemble malinke01
Music of the Hunters with bolon malinke02
Seron/Cora solo malinke03
Recent cora style malinke04
Griot: playing cora with singing malinke05
Three balafon with singers malinke06
Two players on one balafon malinke07
Firdu Fula: three drummers malinke08
Bougaroubou: One player on four drums malinke09
Short Survey of Afro American Musics
Forro Northern Eastern Brazil amer01
USA Charlie Hunter: Ashby Man amer02
Cuba: Capulito de Alleli Vieja Trova Santiaguera amer03
USA: Appalachia. Pretty Polly- amer04
Jamaica: Reggae. Tiger. "Yu Dead Now!" amer05
Guadeloupe: Kassav: Kaye Maman amer06
Jazz Dickie Wells: Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea amer07
Cuba: Salsa. "Shampoo de Cariño" amer08
American Music before African Influence
Bonnie Blue Flag - Dixe amer08
After the Ball amer09
Irish Ceili Dance Music amer10
US: Silver and Gold Two Step Country Fiddle Band amer11
The African Influence Begins
Albert White's Gaslight Orchestra. Smoky Mokes amer12
Goodbye, my Lady Love amer13
Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake. Manda. 1927 amer14
Bessie Smith. Gulf Coast Blues amer15
Piano Blues (Boogie-Woogie)
Cow-Cow Davenport: Cow Cow's Blues. 1925 amer16
Meade Lux Lewis: Honky Tonk Train 1927 amer17
Cripple Clarence Lofton. Clarence's Blues amer18
Jimmy Yancey: 35th and Dearborn amer19
Blues Played on Piano
Fats Waller. Your Turn Now amer20
Duke Ellington: The Clothed Woman 1947 amer21
Art Tatum: Aunt Haggar's Blues. (W.C. Handy) amer22
Nat King Cole Trio: Early Morning Blues amer23
Thelonious Monk: Blue Monk. 1954 amer24
The Country Blues
Charley Patton: Stone Pony Blues amer25
Blind Lemon Jefferson: Matchbox Blues amer27
Son House: Death Letter Blues amer31
Lightin' Hopkins: Death Bells amer32
Moving to Chicago
Henry Townsend: Cairo's My Baby's Home amer35
Roots of Afro American Music in the US
Alabama Children's Song: Rosie, Darling Rosie amer40
Alabama Children's Song: Ama See amer41
Field Hollers: Time to come in amer45
Field Hollers:Children's Field Call amer46
Field Hollers:Greeting Call amer47
Field Blues- Moan. Rich Amerson: Black Woman amer48
Work Song: Bertha, Bertha amer49
Spirituals and Religous Music 
Spirituals: Death is Awful amer42
Spiritual: Low Down The Chariot amer43
Old Spiritual: Climbing Jacob's Ladder jacob
Blind Willie Johnson: If I Had My Way gospel03
Gary Davis: Twelve Gates to the City gospel01
J. Spence, Bahamas: Face to Face That I Shall Know Him gospel02
Congregational singing: I Heard the Voice of Jesus gospel04
Congregational singing:Who'll Be A Witness gospel05
Fisk Jubilee Singers (1913): Roll, Jordan Roll gospel06
Charles Albert Tindley (1851-1933): Understand it better by and by gospel07
First Abyssinian Baptist Church: I Want to Ride That Glory Train gospel08
The Stylistics :You make me feel brand new gospel09
Secret or Hidden African Traditions 
Mississippi: Yazoo delta. Hen Duck. Ed and Lonnie young amer52
Yazoo Delta: quills & snare drum: Old Devil's Dream amer54
Henry Thomas(quills): Fox and the Hounds amer53
Harmonica: Whoopin' & Squallin' S. Terry & B.McGhee amer55
Old Afro American String Band: Rolling River amer56a
Old Afro American String Band: Eighth of January amer56b
Cannon's Jug Stompers: Walk right in amer56
Mobile Strugglers: Raise a Ruckus Tonight. amer57
White Appalachian: Roscoe Holcomb. Pretty Polly amer04
Bill Monroe: Bluegrass. amer58
The Horn Band Tradition
Alabama:The Lapsey Band, Goin' up the Country brass05
Alabama: Laneville-Johnson Union Brass Band. I'm Goin' On brass06
New Orleans Band:Playing hymns on the way to the cemetery brass07
New Orleans Band; Jazzing it up on the way back brass08
New Orleans Jazz: Louis Armstrong's Hot Seven. Potato Head Blues brass12
40's Swing:Nat King Cole: Never Say Never Again Again brass13
Lee Konitz: Fishin Around RealAudio  
Lee Konitz w/ Elvin Jones: I Remember you RealAudio
Modern Jazz:Bob Brookmeyer: With the Wind and the Rain in your Hair brass14
Cedar Walton: Martha's Prize brass11
African American Music Sub Culture
Irving Berlin: Alexander's Ragtme Band(Ted Lewis) Realaudio
W. C. Handy: The Memphis Blues 1912  Realaudio
James Reece Europe: Dancing Deacon  RealAudio   
Duke Ellington: The New Black and Tan Fantasy.  Realaudio
Your Feets Too big Fats Waller.  Realaudio
The Girl I left Behind Me.Fats Waller. 1935 Realaudio
  Read: John Storm Roberts On Early Jazz                                                 PDF 
Nat King Cole: Get Your Kicks On Route 66 Realaudio
Irving Berlin: Alexander's Ragtme Band(Ted Lewis) Realaudio
W. C. Handy: The Memphis Blues 1912  Realaudio
James Reece Europe: Dancing Deacon  RealAudio   
Duke Ellington: The New Black and Tan Fantasy.  Realaudio
Your Feets Too big Fats Waller.  Realaudio
The Girl I left Behind Me.Fats Waller. 1935 Realaudio
Nat King Cole: Get Your Kicks On Route 66 Realaudio
Louis Jordan and his Tympani Five: Choo Choo Cha-Boogie Realaudio
Joe Liggins and his Honeydrippers: Tanya Realaudio
Al Jarreau: Since I fell for You Realaudio
Eddie Heywood: Begin the Beguine. 1944 Realaudio
Muddy Waters: Whiskey Ain't No Good.  Realaudio
B.B. King: You're Still My Woman. Realaudio
Blues Around Dusk. Arnett Cobb. Smooth Sailing.  Realaudio
Shakey. John Patton/Bobby Hutcherson Realaudio 
A Secret Place. Grover Washington Jr  Realaudio
Going to a Go-Go. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles  Realaudio
What's Goin' On. Marvin Gaye  Realaudio
Earth, Wind and Fire. Spirit. Earth, Wind and Fire. Realaudio
Givin' You Back Your Love. Isley-Jasper-Isley.  Realaudio
Herbie Hancock: Watermelon Man Realaudio
Horace Silver: Serenade to a Soul Sister Realaudio
Smooth Operator. Sade. Diamond Life. Realaudio
Tradition. If This Bass Could Talk. Stanley Clarke Realaudio
HIP HOP
Ambient Pop 2004: Fearsome Jewel RealAudio    
Pluramon: Hello Shadow RealAudio    
Alias: Muted. Sixes Last  RealAudio
Quasimoto: come on feet RealAudio
Cannibal Ox: Rasberry fields RealAudio
The Roots: Star Pointro  RealAudio
African Music Outside the US 
The Marimba
Guatemala: Chichicastenango. Music for the Cofradias marimba1
Nicaragua: El Jarabe Chinchon  marimba2
Mexico: Tehuantepec. Mediu Xhigaa marimba3
Belize: San Jose Soccotz. Son Vaquerias marimba5
Mexico: Chiapas. El Niño Dormido  marimba6
Guatemala: Hurtado Brothers. El Rey Quiche marimba7
The Marimbula
Mexico, Oaxaca. Mixe Indians. Son Del Angelito marimbula1
Cuba: Grupo Changui. marimbula2
Colombia: Sexteto Tabala marimbula3
The Caribbean
Guadeloupe: Kassaf: Kaye Maman  carib01
St. Lucia. Malavoi. Sidonie carib02
Guadeloupe: Mazurka. Bassiez Bas carib03
1920's Martinique Beguine carib04
Trinidad Steel Band; Carnival Jump Up carib05
Haiti
Nago (Yoruba) Drums haiti01
Ganbo group haiti02
Vaccine group haiti03
Modern Merengue: Ibo Combo haiti03
Bata group: Song to Elegua cuba05
Bata group: Song to Ochun cuba06
Comparsa Conga: Tumba la Caña cuba09
Cacho: Song to Obatala cuba10
Street Comparsa: Agua que va caer cuba08
Old Style Cuban Danza cuba11
Sals. Son: Guaracheros de Oriente: Son de la Loma cuba14
Son: Compay Segundo. Chan Chan cuba15
Son: Pototo and Filomeno: Echame la culpa cuba17
Celia Cruz with Sonora Matancera: Ben Bernabe cuba25
Bata group: Song to Elegua cuba05
Bata group: Song to Ochun cuba06
Comparsa Conga: Tumba la Caña cuba09
Cacho: Song to Obatala cuba10
Street Comparsa: Agua que va caer cuba08
Old Style Cuban Danza cuba11
Sals. Son: Guaracheros de Oriente: Son de la Loma cuba14
Son: Compay Segundo. Chan Chan cuba15
Son: Pototo and Filomeno: Echame la culpa cuba17
Venezuela and Colombia
Buenaventura Currulao: Adorar a San Antonio colombia05
Colombia:Gulf Coast. Flauta de Millo colombia09
Colombia: Cumbia/Vallenato. Cumbia Soldeña colombia11
Venezuela: Quitiplas stamping tubes venezuela06
Venezuela:Barlovento. Tambor Redondo venezuela05
Venezuela. Campana  venezuela04
Brazil
Portugal
Minho-Douro; Chula Picada. Folk ensemble RealAudio
Fado: Armenio de Melo-Jose Maria Nobrega Balada da Saudade RealAudio
Cabo Verde
Cesaria Evora: Morna: Sodade, RealAudio
Brazil
Candomble: Bahia. Song to Oxala brazil10
Capoeira: Jogo da dentro. Bahia w/berimbau brazil11
Escola de Samba: Mangueira. Afoche, Atabaque, Cuica, Agogo,  brazil13
Nazareth: Odeon  brazil20
Choro: (wind band)  brazil21
Ismael Silva: "Si voce jurar". 1928 CA.  brazil03
Choro (strings) Jacob do Bandolim. "Nao me toques" brazil23
Renato Teixeira; Brazilian country music brazil27
Carmen Miranda - ella diz que tem samba01
Bossa Nova Joao Gilberto: Outra Vez (A.C. Jobim)  brazil28
US/Europe: Catarina Valente - Chet Baker: I'll Remember April  Realaudio
US: Diana Krall: The Look of Love  Realaudio
Earl Klugh: The Night Has A Thousand Eyes  realaudio
Antonio Carlos Jobim: Amparo (Olha Maria) realaudio 
Ryuichi Sakamoto plays A.C.Jobim: Coracao Vagabundo  realaudio
Renato Teixeira; Brazilian country music brazil27
Brass Band Banda Mantiqueira realaudio
Post Bossa: Elis e Tom: Brigas Nunca Mais.  realaudio
Gilberto Gil. Ella  realaudio
NorthEast Brazil: Forro  realaudio
Margareth Menezes. Negro Nagó. Kindala.  realaudio
Joyce: Aldeia de Ogu  realaudio
Hermeto Paschoal: Jogral  realaudio
Toninho Horta: From the Lonely Afternoons  realaudio
Moacir Santos: Kathy  realaudio
Bebel Gilberto: Bananeira  realaudio
CéU: Bobagem  realaudio

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