Word: baoule
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Recording mostly at night "because the moon is very good for music," Alberts captured much of his music without artificial staging, sometimes caught scenes of unrehearsed frenzy. In a Baoulé village of the Ivory Coast, for instance, he happened on a performance of "spirit songs" following the ritual killing of two infants: shortly before Alberts and his wife arrived, a village woman had given birth to twins, and according to a tribal superstition which holds that twins are evil, they had been buried alive. Alberts' recording is hair-raising in its intensity. In Ouagadougou, between the Gold Coast...
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