| Music and Musical Instruments(Baka Pygmies of Cameroon, Gabon and Congo)Photos, texts and audio recordings by Luis DevinSoundscape: Baka arched harp. In the background, sounds and voices of a rainforest camp (Pigmei Baka del Camerun). | | | 3. Player of a harp-zither with central bridge. Baka men | | | |
| | | | | | | | 8. A group of women performing propitiatory musical rites for the hunt, during the departure of the hunters. Bow and crossbow hunting | | | |
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Music anthropologist and writer, he has carried out field research in central Africa, where he lived with the Baka Pygmies and other forest peoples, whose music, rituals and survival strategies he has been studying for more than a decade. www.luisdevin.comwww.facebook.com/LuisDevin | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | HOME SECTION INDEX BACKBaka Pygmy music and musical instruments, with photos and ethnographic notes (Baka Pygmies of Cameroon, Gabon and Congo).Photos, texts and audio recordings by Luis Devin. Page URL: http://www.pygmies.org/baka/music.phpPhotos, videos and sounds are available for licensing, both for multimedia use and paper publications. For the terms and conditions, contact the author from the Contact page. The time in the tropical rainforests of the Western Congo Basin, where the Baka Pygmy people live, is 00:17. Every minute, at least 25 hectares (250.000 m²) of forest are destroyed around the world (source: WWF). Go to the Baka Pygmies section indexCopyright © 1998-2024 Luis Devin. All rights reserved. | | | | | | | |
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