Famoudou Konaté
Famoudou Konaté (* 1940 in Sangbaralla , Kouroussa Prefecture ) is a Djembé player from Guinea .
Konaté comes from the Malinké people . As an eight-year-old, he already played the djembé cup drum at festivals in his home region. From 1959 to 1985 he was the first djembé soloist in the state-owned ensemble Les Ballets Africains de la République de Guinée, which performs worldwide .
Since 1986 Konaté has taught and performed in West Africa, Europe, Japan, China, Taiwan, Israel, North America and Brazil and passed on his knowledge of the traditional rhythms and dances of his homeland. In 1991, a documentation of his music on the CD Rhythms of the Malinké was created for the ethnomusicology department of the Berlin Museum of Ethnology (today the Ethnological Museum ) . In 1996 he became an honorary professor for didactics of African music practice at the Berlin University of the Arts (now the University of the Arts ). On the CDs that have been released since then, Konaté has published a large number of rhythms and songs from his native culture in exemplary recordings.
literature
- Famoudou Konaté, Thomas Ott: Rhythms and songs from Guinea . (Book and CD). Lugert Verlag, Oldershausen 1996
- Vera Flaig: The Politics of Representation and Transmission in the Globalization of Guinea's Djembe . Diss. Phil. University of Michigan, 2010
- Dave Kobrenski: Djoliba Crossing: Journeys into West African Music and Culture . New Hampshire, USA (Artemisia Books) 2013
- Åge Delbanco: West African Rhythms . Santa Cruz, USA (Seven Hawk Publishing) n.d.
- Bram Posthumus: Guinea - Masks, Music and Minerals. C. Hurst & Co, London 2016, p. 175
- Thomas Ott: Metamorphoses. About Famoudou Konaté's autobiographical notes. In: Discussion Music Education, 75, 2017, pp. 26–31
Discography
- Rhythms of Malinké , 1991 (Museum Collection Berlin CD 18, Department of Ethnic Music, Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin)
- Guinée: Percussions et Chants Malinké , 1998 (Musique du Monde, Buda Musique)
- Hamana Föli Kan , 2001 (Buda Musique)
- Guinée: Percussions et Chants Malinké - Volume 2 , 2003 (Musique die Monde, Buda Musique)
- Hamana Mandenkönö , 2004 (TARIKUmusique Famoudou Konaté)
- Hamana Namun , 2008 (TARIKUmusique Famoudou Konaté CD TAR 02)
- Hamana Kundö , 2012 (TARIKumusique Famoudou Konaté CD TAR 03)
- Koria Den , 2016 (Billy Konaté)
Web links
- Works by and about Famoudou Konaté in the catalog of the German National Library
- Rare German Radio Interviews with Famoudou Konaté. In: Percussive Notes , Volume 39, No. 6, December 2001 (translated by Lilian Friedberg, original broadcast on the radio, Berlin, September 1996)
- Famoudou Konaté: Famoudou Konaté: Master of the Malinké Djembe Tradition. The Chicago Djembé Project (as of 2004)
- André Ricardo: Kun be Hamanah - Na Guiné com Famoudou Konaté . Brazilian documentary about Famoudou Konaté and its musical culture, 2012
- Paul Théa: Les Ballets Africains de Guinée . Documentary, 2016
- West-African percussion pages for djembé rhythm - notation and information . By Paul Nas
- Le djembé est un instrument historique . Interview with Famoudou Konaté, Deutsche Welle, June 25, 2019
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Konaté, Famoudou |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Guinean Djembé player |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Sangbaralla |