2014
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Susanne Fürniss, « LES MUSIQUES DU SUD-EST CAMEROUN, REFLÈTS D'UNE HISTOIRE MOUVEMENTÉE », HAL-SHS : histoire, ID : 10670/1.8iiukl
Music in South-East Cameroon, reflections of an eventful historyThrough the investigation of an orally transmitted African music in a historical perspective, this article offers a study of cultural change in which the music itself and its practice become sources of information about the history of the society. The methodological devices of this research bring together several perspectives and are based on musical systematics, the categorization of the musical universe, anthropological considerations, and orally transmitted historical knowledge. The diachronic perspective is here enrichened by the study of culture contact, i.e. the ways a society integrates (or not) musical features from another one.A fundamental approach consists in considering independently what the musicians say themselves about changes in their music and what the observation of their actual practice suggests through the analysis of musical features. Thus, the questioning of the formal aspect of music – and not of musical repertoires recalling history – provides informations on the dynamics of interethnic relationships.This article provides an indepth casestudy about the circulation of a circumcision ritual and its related polyrhythmical formula among the Baka Pygmies in South-East Cameroon and their neighbours.