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List of Rhythms

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

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Special Dances
Some of the dances described here are ceremonies that only happen at certain times of the year.
Most popular, traditional dances in Africa are directly related to work whether they repeat the movements of physical labor or honor movements follow the gesture of the work they have been doing during the day.

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Baga Gine
-106KB each

"Baga Gine" literally means "Baga woman."
The Baga are an ethnic group in northwest Guinea. And there is a story; a baga woman hears music. At first she didn't want to dance, but since the music was so good that she couldn't stand it any more and started to dance.
This is a song in the Susu language.

=Song=
A boron ma? Ma boron ma? Eee!
A boron ma? Ma boron ma? Eee!
A boron ma? Ma boron ma?
E laila! Baga Gine
Fare boron ma woto kui! Eee!
Does she dance the dance?
Or does she not dance the dance?
Hey!
.....
Can you believe it! The Baga woman
even dances in the car!
Hey!
From Rhythms and Songs from Guinea by Famoudou Konate

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Lamba (Djelidon, Djelifoli, Sanja)
-129KB each
Mali

This rhythm is also called "Djelidon" and "Djelifoli" which literally mean "djeli's dance" and "djeli's rhythm" respectively. Sanja and Lamba are all names for the Mali dance or rhythm that were danced exclusively by the Djeli.
This was accompanied only by a balafon or kora. Djembe and dunduns are played now.
In Mali, only two dunduns are used: the Kenkeni and the Dundun. This sangban pattern introduced below is added by Malinke.
The rhythm starts slowly and accelerated later.

Djeli (Griot) is a West African poet, praise singer, and wandering musician, considered a repository of oral tradition.

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Tiriba
-81KB each
Traditional Ethnic Group: Landuma
West Guinea, Boke and Boffa Regions

The meaning of Tiriba has changed several times over the long history.
In the oldest phase, a great dancer called Tiriba had assembled a group of percussionists and performed his dances.
In the second phase, Tiriba was played after the initiation of the girls, when mothers and daughters celebrated and danced together.
Today, in its third phase, the rhythm has become very popular and is one of the favorites at all festivities where people dance.

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Yogui (Gine Fare)
-130 each
Traditional Ethnic Group: Baga
West Guinea

Yogui is a mask of a young lady with firm breasts. It was originally acompanied by Baga-drums (sangbanji) and wassakhoumba (gourd rattle).

You can here it's called "Gine Fare" (Woman's dance), as another Susu-women's dance Maane is also called "Gine Fare."

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