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Model, Variation and Performance. Ful'be Praise-Song in Northern Cameroon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2019

Veit Erlmann
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This paper discusses the role of techniques and concepts roughly corresponding to the Western notion of “improvisation” in the cognitive domain of sung mantoore (praise), i.e., praise-songs, among the Ful'be (engl. Fulani, fr. peul) of Diamaré in North Cameroon. Fieldwork in Diamaré was carried out between June 1975 and October 1976 in thirty-two towns and villages of the region of Maroua, the administrative and commercial centre of the Département du Diamaré with 70,000 inhabitants. Fourteen examples, drawn from approximately 400 praise-songs recorded during the course of the study, have been selected for analysis.

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Yearbook for Traditional Music , Volume 17 , 1985 , pp. 88 - 112
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Copyright © 1985 by the International Council for Traditional Music

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