The djeli sing and perform during rituals, baptisms, weddings and sometimes funerals, and are trusted with theĪfricans say that the drum contains three spirits. The djeli caste still exists today, and is responsible for the traditional music.
Name) is one of those families born into the djembe, it is your instrument and possibly your job to play the drum for the village. Castes have last names that have survived to this day and if your last name (your family Traditionally, only those born into the djembe family would be allowed (or interested) to play the djembe. The jeli are musicians, who are responsible for Once the blacksmith finished the djembe, it was delivered to the drummer who commissioned it, a member of the jeli caste. With the lengue tree, a sacrifice would be made to ask for permission to cut Of the drum was spiritual, and the blacksmith was obliged to make offerings to the spirits of the trees he cut down. This makes sense as they would be the people to cut the tree. It is taught that the Blacksmiths made the first djembes, making each drum custom-fitted to the drummer who would play it. The empire was originallyĮstablished as a federation of Mandinka tribes called the Manden Kurufa (literally Manden Federation), but it later became an empire ruling millions of people from nearly every ethnic group in Mande, named for its inhabitants the Mandinka (initially Manden’ka with “ka” meaning people of), comprised most of present-day northern Guinea and southern Mali.
The Mali Empire grew out of an area referred to by its contemporary inhabitants as Northern Burkina Faso, western Niger, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, the Ivory Coast and northern Ghana. It spanned the modern-day countries of Senegal, southern Mauritania, Mali, The djembe drum is most likely about 400-800 years old, and was created during the Malian Empire by the Mandé people. In history, the Mandinka of Manden became the My master tells these stories and then steps back as even he, doesn't There are at least a dozen stories of the history of the drum told by many master drummers. The Bamanakans' mythology tells of the original djembe, which was made of the hide of a giraffe-zebra Gather and "be" means everyone, which gave the drum used in these calls to order its name.
Some say the name of the djembe came from the Bamana in Mali, who said "Anke dje, anke be" to call their people together, as the saying translates as "everyone gather together." "Dje" means Western understanding, the drum belongs to the membranophone class of instruments in the percussion family.
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This goblet-shaped drum is traditionally carved from a single piece of African hardwood and topped with an animal skin as a drumhead. The djembe is one of West Africa's best known instruments.
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