Palm-wine music

Palm-wine music
Stylistic origins
Cultural originsLiberia and Sierra Leone's Kru people in the 1920s
Derivative forms

Palm-wine music[1][2] (known as maringa in Sierra Leone) is a West African musical genre. It evolved among the Kru people of Liberia and Sierra Leone, who used Portuguese guitars brought by sailors, combining local melodies and rhythms with Trinidadian calypso to create a "light, easy, lilting style".[3][4] It would initially work its way inland where it would adopt a more traditional style than what was played in coastal areas.[5]

It would eventually gain popularity after Sierra Leone musician Ebenezer Calendar recorded songs in the 1950s and 1960s and continues to hold a small amount of that popularity.[6]

  1. ^ Topouzis, Daphne (1 November 1988). "The Kings of Juju and Palm Wine Guitar". Africa Report. 33 (6): 67. ProQuest 1304056634.
  2. ^ Waterman, Christopher A. (1988). "Aṣíkò, Sákárà and Palmwine: Popular Music And Social Identity In Inter-War Lagos, Nigeria". Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development. 17 (2/3): 229–258. JSTOR 40553118.
  3. ^ Barz, Gregory F. (2001). "Palm wine". Grove Music Online (8th ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.51498. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0.
  4. ^ "The story of Ghanaian highlife". 2004-09-28. Archived from the original on 2020-03-23. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
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