Maloya (dance)
In addition to the Séga, Maloya is the main music genre and also a dance style on the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean .
The Maloya is characterized by intricate percussion - rhythms from. In addition to the bass guitar , traditional musical instruments such as caïamb (a flat vessel rattle made of sugar cane or reed filled with pea or canna seeds that are shaken), roulèr (a large cylindrical drum made from a hollowed-out tree trunk) and bobre play (a one-string musical bow with a calabash resonator similar to the berimbau ) plays an important role.
The word "Maloya" comes from the Malagasy "Maloy aho", which means something like "to say", "to chat" or "to chat". Maloya can be interpreted as a work song as well as a lament ( morality ).
It originated from the slaves who worked in the sugar cane harvest and is sometimes compared to the blues of the North American cotton pickers because of its origins .
For a long time Maloya led a kind of shadowy existence and was at times even banned by the colonial administration and the slave owners. In the 1970s, Maloya was "rediscovered" by Réunionese musicians. One of the most famous Maloya artists is Danyèl Waro . 2009 Maloya was created by France for the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of UNESCO proposed and received.
literature
- Carsten Wergin: Kréol Blouz: Musical staging of identity and culture. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-412-20442-6 . (with music CD)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Benjamin Lagarde: Un monument musical à la mémoire des ancêtres esclaves: le maloya (île de la Réunion) . In: Conserveries mémorielles . 2007.
- ↑ a b unesco.org
- ↑ Richard Nidel: World music: the basics . Routledge, 2005, ISBN 0-415-96800-3 , pp. 30 .