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Item: 1er Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres

1966

Other, 31,5 x 31,5 cm .
Materials: Vinyl, LP

Collection: Collection MHKA, Antwerp.

This LP consists of recordings of music performed during the special event organised in the framework of the festival on Gorée island, lying in the Atlantic Ocean near Dakar, and known for its role in the 15th-to 19th-century trans-Atlantic slave trade. The first side of this record consists of texts, music and slave songs, and the second side presents two different aspects of black music – short instrumental improvisations inspired by Senegalese traditional musicand 'the Songs of New Nations' – Ghana, Nigeria, Congo – performed by a choir with native drums and percussion.

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