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List of Rhythms

+Initiation and Circumcision
+Dununba
+Girls and Women
+Masks
+Professional Categories
+Special Dances
+Two Old Rhythms
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Professional Categories
West African societies were hierarchically organized in castes, membership of which was hereditary.
The farmers and craftsmen belonged to the caste of the "free," which included the blacksmiths, shoemakers, tanners, woodworkers and acrobats formed a subgroup.

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Kassa
-117KB each
Traditional Ethnic Group: Malinke
Northeast Guinea

Kassa is a harvest-dance. The word means granary. During harvest-time the farmers go to the fields. During the day, the drummers play Kassa to support the workers in the fields. At the end of the harvest, they all have a celebration in the village, called Kassalodon. ("don" means "dance" in Malinke)
There is another custom related to the work in fields. The prettiest girl in a village hangs her shawl on a stick at the end of the field. The worker who reaches this shawl the first spends the night with the girl. This meeting is not supposed to have a sexual character.

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Dunun Set
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Kassa Soro
-126KB each
Traditional Ethnic Group: Malinke
Northeast Guinea

Kassa Soro has the same history and is played for the same reasons as Kassa.
The kenkeni voice and the djembe voices are the same as those of Kassa.

=Song=
Illawuli woo konko daba, kondon tilu barama
Illawuli woo konko daba, Kolankoma senekelalu barama
Wake up farmer, the meal has arrived, wake up farmer, the meal is here
From Wassolon by Mamady Keita

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Dununba only
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