Musique des bantous sawa du Cameroun à base de chant et de percussions, l'essewe a été redécouvert par des artistes comme le Kamer all Stars ou Stella Mouna qui l’adapté en créant un groove mêlant makossa, reggae et afro-zouk.
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Musique des bantous sawa du Cameroun à base de chant et de percussions, l'essewe a été redécouvert par des artistes comme le Kamer all Stars ou Stella Mouna qui l’adapté en créant un groove mêlant makossa, reggae et afro-zouk.
01 · What it is
Music
Vocal, percussive, or instrumental sound tradition carried by community performers.
02 · Where & name
Cameroon
Placed on record in Cameroon.
03 · How it is doing
□□□□ (Not yet assessed)
Documented in open cultural records, but no cited field assessment of its current vitality has been added here yet.
04 · Proof & reuse
2 cited sources
Every claim links to a public record below. Free to quote, teach, and share under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chapter Takeaways
BibliographieJean Maurice Noah, « L'essewè », in Le Makossa: une musique africaine moderne, L'Harmattan, 2011, p.
Common Questions Answered on Record
What is Esèwè in plain words?
Musique des bantous sawa du Cameroun à base de chant et de percussions, l'essewe a été redécouvert par des artistes comme le Kamer all Stars ou Stella Mouna qui l’adapté en créant un groove mêlant makossa, reggae et afro-zouk.
Where is Esèwè practised or documented?
Sources on this page place Esèwè in Cameroon.
What is the current condition of Esèwè today?
□□□□ (Not yet assessed): Documented in open cultural records, but no cited field assessment of its current vitality has been added here yet.
How do I cite or share this Esèwè entry?
Cite as: "Esèwè." folkroom, https://folkroom.org/art-forms/esewe, text CC BY-SA, with attribution.
Musique des bantous sawa du Cameroun à base de chant et de percussions, l'essewe a été redécouvert par des artistes comme le Kamer all Stars ou Stella Mouna qui l’adapté en créant un groove mêlant makossa, reggae et afro-zouk. 1
Bibliographie
Jean Maurice Noah, « L'essewè », in Le Makossa: une musique africaine moderne, L'Harmattan, 2011, p. 29-30 (ISBN 9782296452770)
Portail des musiques du monde Portail du Cameroun 1
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Essewe”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1
Esèwè is Dance in Duala, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2
The source record links this tradition to 1 external register, which can be verified through the citation. 2