Notes on an idiophone used in Kabile initiation rites by the Mbae
Abstract
- Abstract
- In October, 1953, I sent to the British Museum parts of a tripartite musical apparatus used by the Mbae (Bamanga) tribe during the initiation rites known as Kabile. These were obtained shortly before I left for furlough in Europe in 1950 and I hoped on my return a year later to visit the Mbae area and obtain records of the music used for dancing in which this apparatus played a part. In 1951, however, I had to take up work in another part of Congo and have not yet been able to visit the Mbae country. It may be worth while writing a short note on the interesting idiophone seen, for comparison with similar instruments used elsewhere in the hope that a fuller account, accompanied by musical data, may be published later.
Description
- Description
- pages: 27-28
Subjects
People & roles
- Author
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Carrington, John F.
Value Annotations
Value Annotations
- Is Part Of
- Imperial College London
Origins & context
- Title
- Notes on an idiophone used in Kabile initiation rites by the Mbae
- Type
- Text
- Language
- English
- Parent project
- International Library of African Music
- is funded by
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Rhodes University
- Place of Origin
- South Africa
- Created Date
- December 1, 1954
Rights & access
- License
- CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
- Access Rights
- Public
Identifiers & sources
- DRE ID
- eaa-99-0014
- Identifier
-
222
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- Type
- Publisher, distributor, or vendor stock number
Further details
- WissKI URL
- 74526