Polyphonic singing of the hunter-gatherer people of central Africa

Workshop and discussion on the polyphonic singing of the hunter-gatherer people of central Africa with the Radical Anthropology Group at The Function Room, The Cock Tavern, 23 Phoenix Road, London NW1 1HB on 9 December 2014.

Ingrid Lewis lived with the Yaka Pygmy hunter-gatherers in the Northern Republic of Congo between 1994 and 1997 and has been visiting regularly ever since. Accepted into the Yaka women’s group, she was initiated into two women's secret societies called Ngoku and Yele. She shared some of what she learned with RAG and had them practice it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KcbnsdW2Ck