Smithsonian Folkways FW-04302-CCD Music of the Sudan- The Role of Song and Dance in Dinka Society- Album Two- Womens Dance Songs

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Music is a dignified expression for the Dinka tribes of Southern Sudan. These are the songs of women. Scholar Dr. Francis Deng, himself a Dinka, explains that a woman often creates her identity through her description of the identity of her husband, often “prais[ing] her husband and through him herself with surprising snobbery.” Extensive liner notes include English translations.

Year of Recording 1976.

Record Label Folkways Records.

Source Archive Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.

Credits Recorded by Francis Mading Deng ; Produced by Francis Mading Deng ; Design by Ronald Clyne.

101 Nainai Amou Nyok 4:08.

102 I Sent My Message Amou Nyok 2:57.

103 The Age Set of Deng Wife of the Paramount Chief 2:36.

104 The Youth of Abyei Female Dinka singers 1:38.

105 I Have a Request A girl and a boy 3:45.

106 Our Age-Set Is an Age-Set Female Dinka singers 0:41.

107 I Tell the Son of Ring Female singer 0:45.

201 The Dream One of Paramount Chief's wives 3:48.

202 Our Circle Wife of the Paramount Chief 3:54.

203 Untitled Dinka singers 2:03.

204 Untitled Dinka singers 0:53.

205 Untitled Dinka singers 1:18.

206 Untitled Dinka singers 2:31.

207 Untitled Dinka singers 1:41.

208 The Spreading Horns Wife of the Paramount Chief 4:38.