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PeterPaulinoTwong_songPakangMarchingSong
The song at the center of this item is a Shilluk song. Marching songs are about the courage and strength of a village or a group. They are warriors’ songs that are sung when people are marching for war, or going to fight ...
JuliaJamesOdhok_songWomenOfNewSite
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-02-24)
The recording at the center of this item is a 'horse song', which is normally sung by a lead singer with people answering in response. Horse dance (kyeny), is a dance in which women/girls make a long line or two and run ...
MaryBodhiAkany_songFuneralSongForChiefAwaakjok
The recording at the center of this item is a Shilluk funeral song. Chief Awaakjok was the chief of Papwojo Village in Tonga District. Awaakjok was the chief during the first war (1955-1972), and he protected Papwojo during ...
Nyakwaci_songPenitenceTowardsNyikango
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-02-05)
This short song is about penitence towards Nyikango. Nyikango is the founder of the Shilluk Kingdom. He was both Spiritual and Political Leader. The song is repeated over and over with people dancing (thom). Nyikango, I ...
MariaBocayOnak_SurroundingFish
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-04-17)
This recording is about the ways women do fishing. The first way is called surrounding. In surrounding, women go to the river that has shallow water; they prefer rivers that are covered with reeds. When they reach the ...
AnguyAdyengLwal_songPadhyangCultivated
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-05-19)
The recording at the center of this item is a song. There was famine in some areas in the northern Shilluk “Gär” in the year 1985. And many people left their villages and went to the north looking for food. Some villages ...
GeorgeAgyethDaak_songAjyangAndAkic
The recording at the center of this item is a Shilluk song. Ajyang and Akic were chiefs of Detwok. The army killed those two chiefs and burnt Detwok Village on 30 September 1964. The informants were Shilluks; they guided ...
MariaBocayOnak_DownWithIllness
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-09-16)
The recording at the center of this item is a narrative, in which Maria Bocay Onak tells about personal experiences - two bouts of serious illness while she was a child. There is no term for the word sickness or illness ...
JohnsonOtorKwol_songGiraffeShield
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2013-12-12)
The recording at the center of this item is a song composed by the performer. It is about his shield, which he bought from the country of Nuer. The shield which he bought is a skin of a giraffe, so he calls it giraffe! The ...
FrancisBoywomoOpiti_Goats1
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2013-12-09)
The Shilluk recording at the center of this item is a procedural narrative. Goats are very important to Shilluks. This short narrative shows how children take care of goats. They take the responsibility of looking after ...
BolAwangNyiker_songWijrek
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-05-19)
The recording at the center of this item is a Shilluk song. Wijrek had no paramount chief before King Ayang. They kept complaining that they should not be part of Pachodo area in “Gär”, because Gär is too big and they are ...
EmmanuelOkwacDhikwan_songToKingAkwot
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-02-24)
The recording at the center of this item is a song. The land can’t be good if people have no cows. Cows make the land beautiful and life becomes sweet, because lack of cows is poverty. And to the Shilluk people, if you ...
PeterAthyeyObat_songFuneralSongForAloker
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-09-15)
The recording at the center of this item is a funeral song for Chief Aloker, the chief of Adodo, in Dhothim District. Chief Aloker ruled for a long time. He was good and strong. The song says that he was like “Oil of God ...
TipoDengAjak_FirstDance
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-08-05)
The recording at the center of this item is a narrative in which the performer describes a personal experience. The first dance is one of the important events in the Shilluk Life. It is the event that shows that one has ...
OttoGwadoAyoker_songJalabias
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-10-13)
The recording at the center of this item is a Shilluk song. The composer of this song is Amon Tuk Kaal, from Oryang Village, in Mwomo District in the far north. He he was jailed by the Chief of Mwomo for burning the grass ...
AndrewWanhMayik_songFuneralSongForJagoAyoker
The recording at the center of this item is a Shilluk song. The composer of this funeral song of Chief Ayoker is unknown. But people think that it was composed by a relative. The composer was thinking that his relative, ...
TupacLaaWol_songWhatTheArabsCaused
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2013-12-10)
The Shilluk recording at the center of this item is a song. The composer is Chief Akoko of Lelo Village. Lelo is to the west of Malakal Town, on the other side the Nile. The song is a mourning song according to the Shilluk ...
MaryBodhiAkany_songNyibodoYouthSong
The recording at the center of this item is a Shilluk song. The young men of the village of Nyibodo, from the house of Awunkwey, were dancing with girls from Atigo, a nearby village. But the youth from the Amaylidh house ...
JohnsonOtorKwol_Marriage
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-01-07)
The recording at the center of this item is a procedural narrative. When the young man is ready for marriage, he begins to look for a suitable girl. When he finds a girl, he and his friends go to the village of the girl ...
TupacLaaWol_songWol
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-01-15)
The recording at the center of this item is a song. This funeral song was composed by Ocam Ajobong from Nyibodo Village in praise of Wol Awang. Nobody will protect Alyebjok Village after the death of the son of Kwecnwon. ...
