Chyoko

Artist(s): 
Zegbe and Ndongo men and women
Date: 
1952/07/31
Format: 
78 RPM Shellac Record
Source: 
Shellac record number: TP3229
Publisher: 
International Library of African Music
Rights: 
International Library of African Music
Identifier (greenstone export db): 
6991
Identifier (original): 
TP3229-XYZ7460
Identifier (disa): 
mus1952-07-31.036.018.TP3229-XYZ7460
Keywords: 
Description: 

This song is usually sung after a funeral, with harp, likembe and basket rattle. Leader - Zegbe and Ndongo men and women. Chief Maki, Faradje territory, North East Congo., The singers lament the death of a friend and in so doing demonstrate the fact that Africans celebrate their funerals with dances and apparently gay singing.