Steemit Engagement Challenge S3-W2|All About My Local Music : The Bottle Dance Rhythm, Bikutsi And Makossa
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Warmth greetings to all members of the Hot new community. I Hope we all experiencing a hot and elegant summer as well. It is yet another week to engage and talk about interesting things. I so much like the chosen topic this: All About My Local Music. Music is like a brain drive and if you don't know I will give detail as you read ahead. My choice of theme is : The Bottle Dance Rhythm, Bikutsi And Makossa. read and dance with me.
INTRODUCTION |
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All about my local music is a topic which brings a lot of interest to the table. If we look around us we are all surrounded with music of different varieties ranging from different cultures and across the globe. we all enjoy music and I bet you even a toddler of 8 months to 2 years can be seen or observe dancing when music is played without knowing what music is. simple answer to this is music is for the brains and everyone's brain is receptive to music through sensory neurons.
Music is often defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, rhythm, melody, harmony, or in other words expressive content. Music often plays a key role in social activities, celebrations, religious rituals, and cultural activities. The most common type of instrument in creating music are: strings, woodwind, percussion, brass, drums and keyboards.
Coming to my local music, The Bottle Dance Rhythm, Bikutsi And Makossa. you might wonder why I pick 3 brands of music but The simple responds is, Cameroon is a country of numerous culture and also, it common spoken languages are English and French. The English speaking regions are attached to the bottle dance and Afrobeatz, while the French regions go for Bikutsi and Makossa, I am verse with all but much more enjoys Bottle dance and afrobitz since it my roots.
All About My Local Music, The Bottle Dance Rhythm, Bikutsi And Makossa |
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What Type Of Music Is A Characteristic Of my Country which Is Played Or Listened To A Lot?
My country Cameroon is a bilingual country comprising of the English and the French language. Music in my country is vibes differently in various regions.
The English speaking regions of the country vibe to local Music like the bottle dance, and morden music like Afrobeatz.
The bottle dance was brought to reality far back in the 19th century and has reign the locals till date. the bottle dance is created with instruments such as: guitar, piano, jazz plates , and normal bottles for drinking.
Hence the name bottle dance. this dance is use Mosely in, death celebrations, marriage and also to transmit information through it rhythms. One of the foremost and stronghold the bottle dance was late JOHN MINANG who recite from mezam division and origin from Bali tribe. the are others in the domain of bottle dance but not pronounce like him. let's have a taste of music he left behind.
He passed aways in 2015 and the brand of music is slowly dying down. different artist are push had to continue his work but it's not as renowned as his.
Aside from bottle dance Bikutsi and Makossa are music commonly enjoined in the French region of cameroon. Areas which so much support Bikutsi are the Ewondo people. Bikutsi music was created in the early 1950s and it lyrics were based on war rhymes which is played with various rattles and drums and xylophone and Sung by women. Bikutsi music was mostly use to express our every day problems face in the country at the time.
The most important and early innovator of Bikutsi music was late ANNE MARIE NZIE. so sad all the music legends have gone so soon. After her another prominent person who took over was MESSI ME NKONDA MARTIN with his popular hit Los camereos
As of now the new generation of Bikutsi are LADY PONCE COCO ARGENTEE e.t.c below is a taste of Bikutsi by lady Ponce.
As for MAkossa, it became came known in the days of 1960s and was made known by a popular Cameroon artist also of late 1 year ago by name MANU DIBANGO. He made the most hits of Makossa at his time and not only did he continued in Cameroon, he made Makossa when viral internationally especially in France.
The above mention are the most popular music local music brand in my country. As of now Afrobeatz and Hip Hop Mboko rap are gradually making their way into the music industry.
The Beauty Of This Music And The Reason Why The Music Attract Visitors To Listen To It
Music is fruit for the brains, and well being of an individual. people get to listen to music because the music connect them to something or the lyrics speaks the truth about them. My local music attract visitors all over the globe due to the rhymes and the type message pass in the song. Our local music tells people of the culture and heritage of our country and Africa in general.
Africa is a country bless with many variety, starting from the grassland, wildlife, ancient traditional monuments and museums . When someone listen to this genre of music, the quickly gets an overview of the country and Africa, for example watch a music video shot in a wildlife or museum, make tourist wanting to visit Africa. example is aye Africa above by MANU DIBANGO where he talks of Africa's heritage and touristic sites, filled with love and everyone is welcome irrespective of their race.
Are There Any Similarities Between My Local Music And Other Parts Of The World?
Of course yes
My local music's is much widely connected to other part of the world. Just in Africa most French speaking countries have a similar vibe to local music. a common example is Ivory coast, which have so much in cultural music with Cameroon. we vibe with ivorian music , the vibe with ours, others include congo, Mali, Gabon e.t.c.
Aside from Africa in the 1970s MANU DIBANGO and other renowned artist like Moni Bilé, Bébé Manga, Ben Decca, Petit-Pays, and Esa. Gradually transform Makossa into Antillean zouk which move to Paris. zouk is a kind of slow love music which speaks more of love and often dance by couples.
through zouk, france has become a big fan of cameroon local music and most often Cameroon artist have sold out large concerts in France than anywhere else in the world.
CONCLUSION |
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My local music is extraordinary and one of a kind. if you didn't know much about Cameroon music and culture, here's the opportunity for you to start listening and dancing to Cameroon music. A lot being said I will conclude by inviting the following @chiabertrand, @tangwe-rene, @b-nag @patjewell and @majerius to join me participate on this amazing contest.Thanks for reading.
Credit To: @rafk
Amazing bro, it's great you made a good entry here. You invited me meanwhile i already have made my entry for this contest😅. Thank you for exposing our beautiful bottle dance to the world it's the best dance in the world.
oh. that's great. i will also check it as welll. thanks for the review.
I don’t like music I love music!
There is no lovelier music than the music from the African drum.
Great post my friend and I love your song choice.
If added two of the songs to my playlist.
Ps. Thanks for the invite!
Thanks so much ma'am...
This Is beautiful, when i see Makossa i remember Awilo, this is a well.composed post, good luck.
Thanks so much Dr🥰
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Thank you for the review sir