Kenneth Gourlay Uganda Collection
Zuzzuk music
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Type
sound
Duration
00:26:15
Cultures
Tyap (Kagoro)
Shelf mark
2CDR0006174 (copy of C105/34)
Recording date
1976-06-10
Is part of (Collection)
Ken Gourlay collection
Recordist
Gourlay, Ken
Description
All notes transcribed from spoken announcements on tape: zozo music at Makabon on 10th June 1976; [drumming, male singing, female vocal ululations; singing ceases, hocketting panpipes (zuzzuk)]; [Gourlay]: that recording was made while the tape recorder was in the shelter of the house and the performers were on the other side of the road about...; [continuation of drumming, hocket panpipes (zuzzuk) and vocal ululations and later singing]. [For detailed notes and cross references see: "A descriptive catalogue of recorded sound" compiled by Ken A Gourlay for the musicology section of the Centre for Nigerian Cultural Studies, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. See also: Ames, David W. and Gourlay, Ken A. (1978): "Kimkim: A Woman's Musical Pot" from African Arts 11 (2) p.64 top for discussion of structure].
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