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African Music from Bafut Martin 1 - Shoe Knock (Cameroons)
Posted by tibetlama
August 18, 2007
Video Summary:
"African Music from Cameroon Highlands. Traditional Bufut Bottle Dance. Recorded in June 2007 in Bafut Palace "
Here's an excerpt from a viewer comment: "gwabente (1 year ago) "Folk music from Bafut, a village of the Ngemaba people of Bamenda. It developed in the mid 20th century, is simplistic, with usually just two instruments - guitar and bottle needed to get going",,,.
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2 comments
I just realized which R&B dance this reminds me of. Not the knocking shoes together or dancing in a line) but the dip part reminds me of "The football" which we danced around 1970 -or at least thats around when it came to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
A viewer of this video (gwabente (1 year ago) wrote that this is "Folk music from Bafut, a village of the Ngemaba people of Bamenda. It developed in the mid 20th century".
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I wonder how this dance "developed in the mid 20th century among those people. And I wonder if the "football" dance and other R&B dances-like the twist-which clearly (at least to me) have African roots- were purposely borrowed from African people or were part of our subconscious African memories.
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tameras111 (2 years ago) very original and nice,keep on the bafut flag.
fulem,italy
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fonjajanet (2 years ago) I like bottle dance,that is really traditional.
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soukous70 (2 years ago) Nice to see an African music video that isn't a bad copy of U.S. rap music,thank you!!
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africanpride69 (2 years ago) Bafut, this is really good.
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zen217900 (2 years ago) LOVE IT!!!! Well done
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carletto125 (1 year ago) bameda peuple i love bafut
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MUDSWAT (1 year ago) All I could understand was 1,2,3,4 But It made me smile the whole time and thats what I needed.
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gwabente (1 year ago) Folk music from Bafut, a village of the Ngemaba people of Bamenda. It developed in the mid 20th century, is simplistic, with usually just two instruments - guitar and bottle needed to get going. The guy doing the one, two, etc tells the dancers what moves to do. All dancing couples in a circle must follow the instructions. Sometimes poor dancers are punished by being eliminated from the dance floor. Rurual folks take out a farming day's stress dancing to rhythms like this in the evening.
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bhaktaandre (2 months ago) that little girl is priceless :)
great video.
one love
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brotherskeeper7 (1 day ago) I liked it, they look like me, but i don't know what they are saying. Nice video.