Gumbe (Music)
Music
Guinea-Bissau
Goumbe (Music)
Work cat: 2012624342: Iva & Ichy. Piloto de lantcha [SR] 2003
The Rough guide to world music. Africa & Middle East, 2006: p. 154 (Guinea-Bissau's special music is gumbe. It combines a contemporary sound with the musical traditions that survive in the area. Some compare it to the samba, though it's much more polyrhythmic. The lyrics of gumbe are in Kriolu, a creole synthesis of African languages and the colonial Portuguese)
Rate Your Music WWW site, Oct. 9, 2012: (Although gumbe is sometimes used as catch-all term for the musics of Guinea-Bissau in general, it is more correctly used to refer to a particular genre which is a primarily vocal and percussive song tradition (using slit drums and calabashes) developing from a fusion of many of the country's traditional folk musics. It is generally regarded as beginning around 1973, shortly before Guinea-Bissau gained independence from Portugal)
Beadle, J. Likembe WWW site, Oct. 9, 2012: under Ramiro Naka Ramiro (Guinea-Bissau's indigenous goumbe style typified by performers such as Super Mama Djombo and Ramiro Naka)
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