Fieldwork in Lango, northern Uganda Feb-Mar 1997
Abstract
- Abstract
- Very little academic research has been carried out into the rich and varied musical traditions of the north of the country in contrast with those of the relatively well-explored areas of Bantu-speaking southern Uganda. Yet acquaintances among the Baganda for instance, have often expressed their admiration of the attractive harp and zither music of the Acholi in the north. Less well-known are the lamellaphone-playing traditions of the same general area - notably those of the Acholi, their southern neighbours the Lango people and the Teso people (to the east of Lango). In 1968 a brief fieldwork visit to eastern Acholi had made me aware of widespread and spirited use of the lukeme (the Acholi term for their box-resonated lamellaphone) in ensembles of a dozen or more young men or boys - playing on instruments in three different sizes. Unfortunately the continuing activities of rebel groups belonging to the so-called 'Lord's Resistance Army' under their leader John Kony made it quite impracticable for me to visit any part of Acholi when in February 1997 I tried recently to follow up the initial research I made some 19 years earlier.
Description
- Description
- pages: 66-72
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People & roles
- Author
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Cooke, Peter
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- Is Part Of
- University of Edinburgh
Origins & context
- Title
- Fieldwork in Lango, northern Uganda Feb-Mar 1997
- 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
- November 30, 1999
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- CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
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- Public
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- eaa-99-029e
- Identifier
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1998
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Further details
- WissKI URL
- 80181