The Banda Linda are a small tribe living in Central African Republic. They are part of the Banda people, distinguished by their language called Lindá, a Central Banda language.
They are known for their typical music style, involving long wooden pipes producing a single note.[1] The Italian composer Luciano Berio (1925–2003) defined the community as "highly musical."[2] The French-Israeli ethnomusicologist Simha Arom has described and collected their music.
Instrument edit
The pipes can be known as the Banda Linda Horns, created with tree roots hollowed out by termites. They combine to make a polyrhythm.[3]
References edit
- ^ Arom, Simha (2007). "Language and music in fusion: the drum language of the banda linda". Revista Transcultural de Música. 11.
- ^ Berio, Luciano (2006). Remembering the future (The Charles Eliot Norton lectures). Harvard University Press. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-674-02154-9.
- ^ "Horn Ensemble: Ganza knogo ngo (Banda-Linda) | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings". folkways.si.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
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