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Cameroun : royaume Bamum : musiques du palais et des sociéteés secrètes
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- Parallel title on container: Cameroon : Bamum kingdom : palace and secret societies music
- Format
- Sound Recordings
- Language
- Niger-Kordofanian (Other)
- Contributors
- Publication
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- France : Maison des Cultures du Monde : Auvidis distribution, [1997]
- ℗1997
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 audio disc (59 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in
- OCLC
- ocm37850740
- Credits
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- Ensemble artistique du palais de Foumban ; Prince Aboubakar Njiassé Njoya, conductor
- Ceremonial music of the Bamun people of Cameroon.
- Parallel titles on container back: Cameroon : Bamum kingdom : palace and secret societies music.
- Compact disc.
- Historical and ethnographic notes by the music director and by Pierre Bois in French, with English translation ([24] p. : ill.) inserted in container.
- Recorded at Maison des Cultures du Monde in 1995, and in Foumban in 1989 (track 13).
- Tatat : music of the palace (4:58) -- Gariballe : music for the queens (2:40) -- Baraminda : quiver carriers' dance (2:44) -- Ngu pabam : dance of victory (3:58) -- Mgba : musical tale (8:32) -- Nguri : nguri music (4:07) -- Fenyam : nguri music (4:07) -- Monfuayie : mbansie music (3:03) -- Njâ nsa : mbansie music (4:15) -- Ndange : music for the wedding of a princess (6:48) -- Ku nkemi : nguon music (4:38) -- Musique des trois premiers nguan = music of the three first nguon (4:53) -- Mun ku nsumi : music of the mutngu (3:17)