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+Initiation and Circumcision
+Dununba
+Girls and Women
+Masks
+Professional Categories
+Special Dances
+Two Old Rhythms
+Popular Rhythms

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Dununba, the Dance of the Strong Men
Dununba is the name of a family of traditional rhythms from Malinke. It is said there are more than twenty different variations in this family.
They all have in common the meaning of the dance, which was originally only danced by the men. With this dance, the men settled a tough, and sometimes even violent and bloody, fight to determine the superiority between different age groups in the village.
The Dununba rhythms have the following musical elements in common: the tempo is andante; and the kenkeni and the djembes always play the same pattern. The differences among these rhythms are the sangban and the dununba.

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Donaba
-87KB each
Donaba means "great (woman) dancer." They dedicated a song to her that says, "Mariama, come and show us a new dance!" All instruments
Djembe1
Djembe2
Dunun Set
Dununba only
Sangban only
Kenkeni only
Dunungbe
-87KB each
This is the oldest and most important rhythm of the Dununba family. Many other rhythms have developed from this one.
It is often played at the begining of a festivity.
All instruments
Dunun Set
Dununba only
Sangban only
Kadan
-124KB each
Kadan is one of the dununba rhythms from Kankan, Kouroussa and Siguiri areas in Guinea. This is a dance for the bilakoros (non-circumcized children).

=Song=
I yo dala oo-ee, san da la oo,
I yo ya na dja bilakoro jee don da
Bafa bilakoro !, kanti da dinda
.....
Here come the bilakoros, dancing the Kadan
From Guinee-Percussions et chants Malinke by Famoudou Konate

All instruments
Djembe3
Dunun Set
Dununba only
Sangban only
Break -159KB each All instruments
Dunun Set
Konowulen 1
87KB each
This rhythms is dedicated to a rich and strong man. All instruments
Dunun Set
Dununba only
Sangban only
Kurabadon
-87KB each
This term means "sacred grove." The procession to the sacred grove is accompanied by this rhythm. All instruments
Dunun Set
Dununba only
Sangban only
Nantalomba
-100KB each
Nantalonba is a popular dance, and also a song in which the younger dancers are compared to a spider. All instruments
Dunun Set
Dununba only
Sangban only
Takosaba
-196KB each
This term means "three times" and refers to the movements of the dance, which repeat three times. All instruments
Dunun Set
Dununba only
Sangban only

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