Title
Music of Kuria, Kenya and Tanzania: Ntimaru Musicians, Part 12
Streaming Media
Document Type
Video
Date Information
2013-09-03
Publication Date
9-3-2013
Keywords
Praise-Singing; Kuria District; Kenya; Tanzania; African Music; Poetry
Culture
KUJ (Kuria)
File Name
130903_KUJ_Band_12
Playing Time
00:09:17
Abstract
On September 3, 2013, three days after the inaugural Kuria Cultural Festival, we visited musicians from the winning performance troupe from Ntimaru, a small village in Southwestern Kenya, just metres from the Tanzania border. The singing includes Kikuria and alliterative sounds (vocables), accompanied by the iritungu (eight-string lute), ekegogo (single-string fiddle) and ibirandi (gourd shakers). Michael Derek Gideon studied the poetry and music of Kuria for nine months in 2013, with the guidance and expertise of teacher and scholar, Peter Muniko.
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Recommended Citation
Carter-Enyi, Aaron; Gideon, Michael Derek; and Muniko, Peter, "Music of Kuria, Kenya and Tanzania: Ntimaru Musicians, Part 12" (2013). Africana Digital Ethnography Project. 45.
http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/adept/45
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