Bubu Music
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Bubu Music is traditional music played by the Temne people in Sierra Leone. The music was originally used in witchcraft ceremonies, but later it turned into a popular religious processional
style played during Ramadan. In its folk form, the music is played by blowing on bamboo cane flutes and on metal pipes.
During the Sierra Leone Civil War
, Ahmed Janka Nabay
became the first musician to record Bubu music. He modernized the sound by adding electric studio instrumentation. Nabay's music became popular across the war-torn nation.
With songs like "Sabanoh" (We Own Here), Nabay asserted what he established as the underlying message of Bubu—peace, good governance and the empowerment of women. In 2010, Nabay released the first-ever international Bubu record, BUBU KING on True Panther Records in New York City. He subsequently formed the first-ever international Bubu band, Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang, from local musicians in Brooklyn
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Processional
Processional: A Jazz Symphony of American Life is a four-act modernist comedy by the American playwright John Howard Lawson. It was first produced by the Theatre Guild at the Garrick Theatre in New York, opening on January 12 1925 in a two-month run. Philip Moeller directed while Mordecai Gorelik...
style played during Ramadan. In its folk form, the music is played by blowing on bamboo cane flutes and on metal pipes.
During the Sierra Leone Civil War
Sierra Leone Civil War
The Sierra Leone Civil War began on 23 March 1991 when the Revolutionary United Front , with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor’s National Patriotic Front of Liberia , intervened in Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow the Joseph Momoh government...
, Ahmed Janka Nabay
Ahmed Janka Nabay
Ahmed Janka Nabay is a Sierra-Leonean musician who has been a major figure in Bubu Music, a traditionally Muslim music which is played by up to 20 musicians blowing into bamboo pipes of different sizes.. Janka Nabay recorded his album in Forensic Studios in Freetown during the Sierra Leonean Civil...
became the first musician to record Bubu music. He modernized the sound by adding electric studio instrumentation. Nabay's music became popular across the war-torn nation.
With songs like "Sabanoh" (We Own Here), Nabay asserted what he established as the underlying message of Bubu—peace, good governance and the empowerment of women. In 2010, Nabay released the first-ever international Bubu record, BUBU KING on True Panther Records in New York City. He subsequently formed the first-ever international Bubu band, Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang, from local musicians in Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...
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