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Chopi, Southern Mozambique

Traditional Chopi Music

The Chopi speak Chichopi, a tonal language in the Bantu family, with many also speaking chiTonga and Portuguese as secondary languages

Xylophone made up of wooden slats of the sneezewort tree, called mhwnjhe in Chopi, and dried masala fruit shells or calabashes as resonators

The skill of playing timbila is passed within families from one generation to the next. In Chopi culture it was traditionally used as an initiation passage for boys into adulthood, and often children would play alongside their grandfathers in an orchestra.

Introduction to Traditional Dance and Music

Features of East African Music

  • reinforces cohesion
  • musicians have held prominent roles in East African kingdoms for centuries
  • music and dance is used for entertainment purposes, religion, celebrate/honor life stages, to pass down histories and knowledge
  • wide-spread use of drums
  • traditional material for wind instrument include reeds, horns, metal pipes, and wood
  • horn/trumpet type instruments are also used
  • continually changing, responses to the political, social, and economic environment
  • instruments are often gendered

Trans-Saharan Trade Routes

East Africa Map

Indian Ocean Trade Routes

Burundi

Dance

Music

Dance is an integral part of the culture

One form of Tutsi dance is performed by a group of highly trained men

The troop Les Tambouinaires du Burundi has performed in New York and Berlin

The dancers dress in leopard fur and headdresses

This form has its roots in the dances of the royal court in the time of the Tutsi kingdom

Burundi has a unique and long-standing musical heritage

At family gatherings Imvyino songs are sung

Indirimbo song

Men sing kwishongora, whereas women sing bilito

Songs are played on the inanga, idono, the ikihusehama, and the ikimbe, a linguaphone

Drums are also very important.

Acholi of South Sudan

Traditional Dance

Contemporary Approaches to Traditional Dance

Masai of Tanzania and Kenya

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4201976

Traditional Music and Dance of East Africa

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