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Volume 69 no. 3, Fall 2025

Ethnomusicology

Performing Change and Preservation: How Pop Songs Became Ritual Music among the Pastoral Samburu of Kenya

by Giordano Marmone / Université de Strasbourg, Institut d’ethnologie, Laboratoire interdisciplinaire en études culturelles


 

TOC- Table of Contents

Audio Examples

Audio Example 1a: Lkishuroto, field recording by Jacqueline Roumeguère made in 1970, Archives of the Centre de Recherche en Ethnomusicologie, Université Paris Nanterre, Paris

Audio Example 1b: Lkishuroto, field recording by author, 2012

Audio Example 2: Sesiæi of the age set lkimaniki transcribed by the author from a field recording made by Paul Spencer in Ngaruni, 1958, Archives of the Centre de Recherche en Ethnomusicologie, Université Paris Nanterre, Paris

Audio Example 3: Sesiæi of the age set lkuroro. Transcribed by the author from a field recording made in Seisei, 2012

Audio Example 4: Sesiæi of the age set lkishami. Transcribed by the author from a field recording made in Simalé, 2017

Audio Example 5: Field recording of Lodo by the author, 2012

 


Audios

Audio Example 1a: Lkishuroto, field recording by Jacqueline Roumeguère made in 1970, Archives of the Centre de Recherche en Ethnomusicologie, Université Paris Nanterre, Paris

University of Illinois Press · Audio Example 1a - Roumeguère - Lkishuroto (1970)


 

 

Audio Example 1b: Lkishuroto, field recording by author, 2012

University of Illinois Press · Audio Example 1b - Marmone - Lkishuroto 2012


 

 

Audio Example 2: Sesiæi of the age set lkimaniki transcribed by the author from a field recording made by Paul Spencer in Ngaruni, 1958, Archives of the Centre de Recherche en Ethnomusicologie, Université Paris Nanterre, Paris

University of Illinois Press · Audio Example 2 - Sesiæi of the age set Lkimaniki recorded by Spencer (Ngaruni 1958)


 

 

Audio Example 3: Sesiæi of the age set lkuroro. Transcribed by the author from a field recording made in Seisei, 2012

University of Illinois Press · Audio Example 3 - Transcription of the choral part of one of the Sesiæi of the age set Lkuroro


 

 

Audio Example 4: Sesiæi of the age set lkishami. Transcribed by the author from a field recording made in Simalé, 2017

University of Illinois Press · Audio Example 4 - Transcription of the Sesiæi


 

 

Audio Example 5: Field recording of Lodo by the author, 2012

University of Illinois Press · Audio Example 5 - Marmone - Lodo 2012


 

 

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