Description
- Abstract:
- Calabash jongo maintains similar rhythms as the standard jongo played on kori, but uses half-calabashes, without membranes, instead.
- Notes:
- Instrumentation: calabashes (4 - 2 played with metal rings, 2 played with hands/fists), kori (2), wui (3), gungonga
- Place of recording: Kayoro
- Performance history: performance-demonstration
- Tape location: Reel 104, Track 09
Access Conditions
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Restrictions on Use
- Collection is open for research.
Citation
Puali, Kagua,
"Calabash jongo"
(1975).
James Koetting Ghana Field Recordings Collection.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:146643/
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James Koetting Ghana Field Recordings Collection
...The James Koetting Ghana Field Recordings collection presents a vibrant mix of traditional and popular music recorded at a broad range of locations and events in Ghana during the 1970s by ethnomusicologist James Koetting. Students and researchers can hear online …