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OttoGwadoAyoker_songFuneralSongForAmaylek
(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 funeral song. Amaylek was a paramount chief of Tonga. He ruled in a difficult time of famines; during the reign of King Gwang (1917-1944). He was a just chief and very hospitable, ...
JohnOgaacBol_songKwanyirathBol1
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-01-13)
The recording at the center of this item is a funeral song (ayaar), sung by the performer about his father. Kwanyirath Bol Acyen, was born in 1888, during the Shilluk wars with Arabs. King Gwang made him chief of Lul Otango ...
PeterPaulinoTwong_songKebDanceOfPakang
The recording at the center of this item is a Shilluk song. Keb is a dance in which people dance without drum beats. But the person who leads the song must have a strong voice, sometimes the song is led by two people. This ...
JuliaJamesOdhok_songTheFlagIsRaisedHigh
(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 ...
JohnsonOtorKwol_songDaaksShield
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-04-17)
The recording at the center of this item is a shield song. Its composer is Daak Otong from Nyijwado Village in Tonga District. He was serving in the army in Doleib Hill, where he married the daughter of Aryal Gidbek in ...
AndrewWanhMayik_songTheSongOfDibalo
The recording at the center of this item is a Shilluk song. The Mahdists entered Khartoum on 28 January 1885. And the Mahdi declared an Islamic State with its capital in Omdurman. Mahdi died in June the same year and ...
NyayejoCyanAyul_songWej
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-06-04)
The recording at the center of this item is a Shilluk song. Girls’ songs are like women songs; the difference is that girls focus on dancing the drum “bul”; that is the day-time dance. This song begins with a complaint ...
JuliaJamesOdhok_songTheDaughterOfAwin
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-01-13)
The recording at the center of this item is a song. Women songs are usually songs of praise mostly boasting about their beauty and the make-up. But there are many women who are composers of social and political songs. The ...
MaryBodhiAkany_songKebDanceOfPapwojo
The recording at the center of this item is a Shilluk song. Keb is a dance in which people dance without drum beats. But the person who leads the song must have a strong voice, sometimes the song is led by two people. This ...
CarlaNyanginoRoberto_WorkOfTheHome
(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 procedural narrative. The narrator here is telling what she used to do when she was a girl in Lul. House work of women work is not like the work of men or boys. House work is ...
NyadhongoTwongObany_songAlaki
(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. Alaki is the village of King Kwongo Daak, the present King of the Shilluk. The Shilluk King is considered to be of his maternal uncles’ village. And after his ...
JohnsonOtorKwol_songDrum
(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. This drum song is composed by the singer. It is about their group dancing with the girls of a kingly clan; group of Akwol. This song is remarkable; it describes the ...
AndrewWanhMayik_songEnergeticDance
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-10-29)
The recording at the center of this item is a Shilluk song. The Dhøgalal young men wanted to win dancing mates. But the girls whom they wanted were already dancing with another group. And those other young men were boasting ...
MaryBodhiAkany_songFuneralSongForAbinykwec
The recording at the center of this item is a Shilluk song. It is a funeral song (Shilluk "ayaar") about Gwado Ayoker from Nyibodo village, which is part fo the Tonga district. Awook, Nyikwec and Abinykwec are his bull's ...
EmmanuelOkwacDhikwan_songIStaySeparate
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-02-03)
This song belongs to the young men of the village of Dibalo (in the Ogot Konam area), who called themselves the “Germans”. This age-set, the Germans, danced with the Daughters of the Kwajwok clan of Paju for a long time ...
NyadhongoTwongObany_songWhiteBird
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-01-13)
The recording at the center of this item is a song. Girls’ songs are like women songs; the difference is that girls focus on dancing the drum “bul”; that is the day-time dance. "Okok" is the white bird. This refers to an ...
JeremiahJwokpapyejGay_songKebDance
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-03-04)
The recording at the center of this item is a song. In the dry season, in Chollo Land, the weather becomes very hot and nights are long. So, the youth gather in an open space (thwørø), usually between two villages, but ...
TupacLaaWol_songObongiAnyong
(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. The song is a funeral song of Wol Awang, the chief of Alyebjok of Ayijdhajo Village in Tungo. The composer is one of the dead man’s sons; his name is Obyel Wol. The ...
TupacLaaWol_songWhatTheArabsCaused
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-01-15)
At the center of this item is a recorded funeral song. Other renditions of the same song were recorded on 09NOV2013; and also in 2008. The composer is Chief Akoko of Lelo Village. Lelo is to the west of Malakal Town, on ...
AndrewWanhMayik_songYouWouldHaveBeenMarried
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-10-29)
The recording at the center of this item is a Shilluk song. Young men would seek new dancing mates if the girls with whom they dance were taken by another group. They can also seek to win girls from another village if they ...