Media: The Early Years

Media: The Early Years

• Video: 1991 Erasmus Ndara
  • Audio-Visual field recordings by Gerhard Kubik
• Audio: Unknown Highlife Band ( Sierra Leone )
• Audio: 1927 George Williams Aingo
  • From Album “Roots of Highlife”
  • Tune: Suantsi

Notes:

VIDEO: Erasmus Ndara

• 1991 28 years old
• Song is sung in Mbukushu ( Angola and Namibia region )
• Lives with is Married Sister who supports him
• “Five String Guitar”
• Tune: Engelika ghapumura munu wendi-endi dimbo ?
• Song is about his sister Angelika warning about quarreling with her husband
• Note “Fade-out” ending
• Technically: Tuning of 6th string is an octave higher

Audio: Unknown 1970’s Highlife Band from Sierra Leone

• Compare chord progression and melody

AUDIO: George Williams Aingo

• Tune: Suantsi
• August 1927 Zonophone Label in London
• Singing in Fanti
• Between 1927 and 1931 issued 180 records.