Bambule
Bambule [ bamˈbuːlə ] is a term from the German crooks language that describes drumming with all kinds of objects inside and outside of prison cells as a form of protest practiced by prisoners . The word is derived from the originally probably African drum dance Bamboule (also Bamboula ). B. in Louisiana and Guadeloupe is known. The variation wambule can also be found in isolated regions of central Germany .
description
In New Orleans, for example, as early as the early 19th century , black slaves danced in Congo Square , an open space where Louis Armstrong Park is today , but also Calinda and Bamboula hoop earrings on Sundays . They also sang in their respective languages and made music on drums and wooden trumpets. About the character of the dance it says: The dance however was very frantic, roared, rattled, twanged, contorts and tumbles and lasted for quite a while.
The form of protest practiced by young people in nursing homes (before the change in youth welfare law in the 1970s), namely to make noise with all available objects, gave Bambule the meaning of riot in German . In 1970 Ulrike Meinhof produced the television film Bambule , for which she had also written the screenplay . Here she criticized the authoritarian methods of home education (“ welfare education ”), which in the plot of the film lead to a revolt by female inmates.
Bambule was the name of a left-wing, self-governing communication center that existed in Braunschweig in the 1970s . This meaning of the word is particularly common in Hamburg, as Bambule was the name of a construction trailer site in Hamburg's St. Pauli district (Karolinenviertel redevelopment area). In Frankfurt in the 1990s it was customary to shout “Randale, Bambule, Frankfurt School !” At some demonstrations in order to remind people of older protest cultures. In Dortmund , on the occasion of winning the German soccer championships in 2011 and 2012, BVB fans chanted: "Bambule, Randale, Dortmund has the shell!"
In Switzerland, the term Bambule (or Bamboulé) is used in connection with smoking cannabis . He emphasizes the friendly attitude and likelihood of people who smoke when they pass the hash cigarette ( joint ) around , comparable to clinking glasses and the mutual discussion of cheers.
See also
- Bambule protests in Hamburg 2002
- History of the squatting in Hamburg
literature
- Gilbert Chase : America's Music: From the Pilgrims to the Present , Greenwood Press , Westport CT (July 1981) Edition: 2, ISBN 0-313-22391-2 . ( The music of America. From the beginnings to the present , Max Hesses Verlag , Berlin (1958), ISBN 3-7952-0015-6 )
- Sidney W. Mintz (Editor), Sally Price (Editor): Caribbean Contours , (Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History & Culture), Johns Hopkins University Press http://www.press.jhu.edu/ , Baltimore (June 1985) , ISBN 0-8018-3272-1 .
- Harold Courlander (Editor), Enrico Arno (Illustrator): A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore , Marlowe & Company http://www.marlowepub.com/ , New York, NY (February 1996) 2nd, ISBN 1-56924-811 -7 .
- Eileen J. Southern and Josephine Wright : Images: Iconography of Music in African-American Culture; 1770s-1920s , Garland Publishing, Inc. , New York, NY (Dec. 21, 2000) 2nd, ISBN 0-8153-2875-3 .
- Dena J. Epstein : Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War , University of Illinois Press http://www.press.uillinois.edu/ , (Dec 1997), ISBN 0-252-00520-1 .
- Roger D. Abrahams and Nick Spitzer : Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul , University of Pennsylvania Press http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/ , (February 15, 2006), ISBN 0-8122-3959 -8th
Web links
- To the Bamboula dance at www.streetswing.com (English)
- bamboula drums at www.rhythmweb.com (English)
- History of Jazz on the Washington Post website (English)