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Prof. Eric Charry's seminal ethnomusicology essay on the West African drum called "djembe" or "jenbe, jembe."

Playing with microtiming is a remarkable feature of musical rhythm in the Western Sudan. Both African and Western musicians and musicologists have time and again wondered at the capability of Malian, Senegambian or Guinean drummers to excitingly place not

A Djembefola is considered as: worthless, good-for-nothing, ignorant, idiot, stupid, incapable, mokolankolo, waste of the society, frivolous personality, not trustworthy. Nobody wants to bring into the world a Djembefola. A Djembefola hasn't the right to speak when the discussion is about serious matters. It is an insult to be treated as a Djembefola. Hey! Who are you? You are nothing but a Djembefola.

Streaming djembe / dundun drumming music on Deezer

This is where you can find, and share, notation for many West African djembe orchestra rhythms.