Pygmy music refers to the sub-Saharan African music traditions of the Central African foragers (or "Pygmies"), predominantly in the Congo, the Central...

In anthropology, pygmy peoples are ethnic groups whose average height is unusually short. The term pygmyism is used to describe the phenotype of endemic...

The African Pygmies (or Congo Pygmies, variously also Central African foragers, "African rainforest hunter-gatherers" (RHG) or "Forest People of Central...

popular nationwide. The sanza is a popular instrument. The Pygmies have a complex folk music tradition. Polyphony and counterpoint are common components...

historically called pygmies, a term that is now considered derogatory. Baka people are all hunter-gatherers, formerly referred to as pygmies, located in the...

World Routes in Georgia – Ancient polyphony from the Caucasus region on BBC Radio 3 Aka Pygmy Polyphony African Pygmy music, with photos and soundscapes...

Republic of the Congo and Zambia, including Pygmy music. West African music (yellow region on map) includes the music of Senegal and the Gambia, of Guinea and...

found in all human societies. These include expressive forms like art, music, dance, ritual, religion, and technologies like tool usage, cooking, shelter...

and other Native American music, Pygmy music, the music of the Maldives. In Irish traditional music and Highland Scots music, it is called lilting, and...

examples of micropolyphony applied to complex "minimalist" Steve Reich and Pygmy music derived rhythmic schemes. Cope 1997, 101. Steinitz 2003, 103. Griffiths...

The Aka or Biaka (also Bayaka, Babenzele) are a nomadic Mbenga pygmy people. They live in south-western Central African Republic and in northern Republic...

in Pygmy music of Central Africa. Hancock and Summers were struck by the sound, which they heard on the album The Music of the Ba-Benzélé Pygmies (1966)...

musical traditions, the Pygmy music of the Congo jungle and that of the bushmen of the Kalahari, do much to define the music of the central region and...

ISBN 0-521-24160-X. He also made some historical field recordings of the Aka Pygmy music. In the 1960s, Arom was sent by the Government of Israel to establish...

Pygmy Lush (sometimes spelled as one word) is a band from Sterling, Virginia formed by ex-Pg. 99 members Mike and Chris Taylor and Johnny Ward. Other...

as the Ba-Benzélé (featured on Herbie Hancock's "Watermelon Man," see Pygmy music), Mbuti, Basarwa (Khoisan), the Gumuz tribe from the Blue Nile Province...

the Efé (Bambuti) pygmies of the Ituri Rainforest. He wrote the 1964 autobiographical book, Congo Kitabu, the 1973 ethnologic book Pygmy Kitabu (a more detailed...

acknowledges the influence of Japanese music, especially Gagaku, and Pygmy music. Young discovered classical music relatively late in life, thanks to his...

The term Congo Pygmies (African Pygmies) refers to "forest people" who have, or recently had, a hunter-gatherer economy and a simple, non-hierarchical...

preference Ptolemy's intense diatonic scale Public domain music Pulse Punctualism Pygmy music Pyknon Pythagorean comma Pythagorean hammers Pythagorean...

over the sampling of music from indigenous peoples. Though a percentage of the profits from sales of Deep Forest goes to the Pygmy Fund, a California-based...

he recorded music by the BaAka community and ended up staying to become part of the community. 25 years later Louis is taking his pygmy son Samedi to...

columns written in English, Zulu, Sotho, and Xhosa. African Pygmies Bantu mythology Bantu music Congoid Demographics of Africa Dume district Genetic history...

[citation needed] Rorogwela's melody was also used in Jan Garbarek's "Pygmy Lullaby". It was named as such because he thought the melody used in Deep...

"the rain forest pygmies of Africa"." Mike Joyce from The Washington Post complimented it as "a dreamy slice of Euro-pop dance music blended together...

Lakes region on the border of Central and East Africa. As an indigenous pygmy people, the Twa are generally assumed to be the oldest surviving population...

indigenous pygmy groups in the Congo region of Africa. Their languages are Central Sudanic languages and Bantu languages. Bambuti are pygmy hunter-gatherers...

traditional Pygmy song." Daulne says her mission is to be a bridge between the European and the African and bring the two cultures together with her music. "What...

Baka Pygmy Music. Unesco collection. Italy: EMI Italiana, 1977. Sound recording, OCLC 27007694, and Worldcat record, Arom, Simha. Cameroon: Baka Pygmy Music...

Ota Benga (c. 1883 – March 20, 1916) was a Mbuti (Congo pygmy) man, known for being featured in an exhibit at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in...