Art of the Xalam ( & Hoddu)

A little exploration into some of the roots of the banjo in Africa/Senegal.
We look at the playing technique of master Griot Samba Guisee' in Dakar, Senegal...

Ephraim McDowell

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[VraiDiouf]

The original moors are West African.

[Junior1luv]

TINDIBIYA!!!!tHAT`S MY SHIZZLE!!!i AM SO STUNNED BY W.AFRICAN MUSIC

RIGHT NOW YO!!!iT`S SO BEAUTIFUL

TO ME.

[Max Dzikowski]

btw, check this video:

IMZAD - Agadez

Use of hemitonic pentatonic on bowed instrument imzad.

[Max Dzikowski]

Pentatonic without semitones.

+ a lot of gongs.

[thebookofjoy]

Chinese scales = major/minor pentatonic? :O

[Max Dzikowski]

Aside from the European music, I read somewhere that Chinese scales (you just know them when you hear them) when they were introduced to Japan they were rejected by the lower classes, used to hemitonic pentatonic, and remained thereafter limmited to the court and temple music.

[Max Dzikowski]

Curt Sachs - The Rise of Music in the Ancient World, if I recall correctly.

Martin Litchfield West - Ancient Greek Music, if you want more specific and up to date informations (Sachs did make some false assumptions - but that was early 20th century so anything serious in that matter was a milestone after earlier romantic hallucinations - think of academic paintings as an only reference before his work).

[thebookofjoy]

might you have a link to an article or something? I'm very interested in it, thanks a lot

[Max Dzikowski]

Some musicologists claim it was one of the original scales known to man, even older than anhemitonic pentatonic. Used by Ancient Greeks with additional quartertone notes between halftones under name Enharmonic mode.

[bichecarabiche]

this instrument doesn't belong to one single group it belong to(((( wolof , bambara, mandings,pulars, maures, etc. they all hve their own styles)))) the list is much longer than this. a little bit of respect for historical facts

[thebookofjoy]

6:00 "japanese" scale there! wow wow

[lsamoa]

Actually, a few historians (Cheikh Anta Diop and others) think the Wolof came from Ancient Egypt originally