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Among the Wolof people of Senegal, drumming, singing, and dancing make up an integral part of social and life-cycle activities. Music is featured at ceremonies celebrating everything from birth and marriage to wrestling matches and community work projects. This is an excerpt from a wedding dance, with singing by female relatives and friends of the bride. The drumming is polyrhythmic, as in the music of many West African peoples, with the high-pitched sabar drum playing the key rhythm and also providing sudden bursts of staccato rhythmic breaks. The sabar is played against the deep, steady pulse of the gorong, an upright log-drum.
"Wedding Dance Music" from Wolof Music of Senegal and the Gambia (Cat.# Folkways FE 4462) (p)1955 Smithsonian-Folkways Recordings. All rights reserved.
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