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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/CO00000002/00001
Material Information
- Title:
- Tuareg 'tende' (female possession drumming) drum, song and dance performance (T1B)
- Alternate Title:
- T1B Tuareg 'tende' (female possession drumming) drum, song and dance performance
- Creator:
- Oxby, Clare ( contributor )
- Place of Publication:
- [London]
- Publisher:
- Clare Oxby
- Publication Date:
- 1973
- Language:
- English
Notes
- Abstract:
- Percussion: mortar drum (skin stretched over large millet mortar with two pestles, two women sit on the pestles to increase tension of skin) and calabash drum (calabash inverted over water contained in large basin) providing boom beat; clapping by singers. Female voices practising. The lead singer has arrived to initiate the call and response pattern in the female voices; lyrics are minimal and repetitive, as members of the chorus take turns to take centre stage and dance frenetically to exhaustion. ( en )
- General Note:
- Continued from [audio title]: T1A Tuareg 'tende' (female possession drumming), musical warmup
- General Note:
- Audio info: NB best sound quality from 4mins in
- General Note:
- Language: Tamashek = Tamajeq (Ayr Region form of Tuareg Berber)
- General Note:
- Date of recording: 3 November 1973
- General Note:
- Location: remote central Niger Tuareg dry season camp, near Gadabeji, between Maradi and Agadez, Niger
- General Note:
- Occasion: The chef's daughter M is ill, a month after having given birth. It is thought she must be possessed by evil spirits. Musicians are summoned to dispel the spirits, in an all-female performance, with some men listening on. The healing ritual includes drumming, singing and frenzied dancing over several days. After a few days M is still ill. She is sent to the nearest clinic where she appears to improve. She hates the filth and chaos in Dakoro clinic and longs for home. Back home, her health deteriorates rapidly and on 30th December she sadly dies, followed by her baby a few days later, despite the brave efforts of the household servant / wet nurse.
- General Note:
- Contributors: female crowd in nomadic camp
- General Note:
- Related: Oxby, Clare. Sexual division and slavery in a Twareg community : a study of dependence. (Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1978.) https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.467947/
- General Note:
- VIAF (name authority) : Oxby, Clare : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/70299390
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- SOAS University of London
- Rights Management:
- All applicable rights reserved by the source institution and holding location.
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