Bamaya Solo

Bamaya solo from Dagbon, Ghana. With Awal Alhassan and Zosimili after school dance program. www.sohoyini.com

Category:

Music

Tags:

• dagomba
• dancing
• tamale

[tukeyful]

Lisa, I think a little was lost in translation - it didn't look to me like he was upset with you specifically. I think the issue is more general, and one that is seen with many traditional arts - culture gets diluted if we let it. We should do our best to learn the truth and to only teach others when we are sure that we have gotten the right story ourselves. There's no blame, but these stories are precious and worth respect :)

[awalalhassan]

Hey Lisa Please what you know about Bamaya is not right ,Okay please do not say that okay is really offending my tribe, if you want a history please go were the tribe is, many people say a history's of my tribe dances wrong so please the right is about rain I will not tall much on the net thank you very much , by awal alhassaan from Tamale Ghana,,,,,,

[serpz123]

what's the name of the drums being used?

[Stimulator7]

@tukeyful Well said, man. My own teacher (in a different style of West African Drumming than this) would agree. He would absolutely consider it disrespectful, as if you were "taking his music and calling it your own" if one were to accidentally (as is often the case) say anything about/show someone, any aspect of his music and dance, unless we are absolutely certain than we are in fact doing it correctly and representing it well (which usually also means that "we learned it correctly, from him

[claurelle26]

hi, where can i find these accessories and dance costume? i wanna do this dance for my talent for my upcoming pageant!

[obamorofunfuno8]

@idreamofthemusic no there has to be more to the story. If that were the case why then wouldn't they just have had the women do the dance? From what I was told it was through divination that the message was conveyed that the men should dress as women and perform the dance. But still there most certainly more to the story. But it rained! :-)

[idreamofthemusic]

From what I know, Bamaya is a dance performed by men dressed as women because during the great drought, when people prayed , it was believed that women were responded to first. Is this true?

[91BAZBAZBAZ]

POOO

[boohcool]

awsome

[Lisa246861]

Thank you.

[Lisa246861]

Gees...Sorry if I offended you, but that's what I was taught, so excuse me for my ignorance. Thank you for correcting me tho, as many people have already done. Unfortunately, no matter how interested I am in learning about African culture, I can't afford to just hop on a plane and fly down to Ghana or any other part of Africa. I'd love to, but I can't. So I take classes here to learn what I can. Its not my fault if they teach me the wrong things. But instead of getting angry, just re-educate.