insider.si.edu

Ethnographic notes on Kongo musical instruments

In the last eighty years, traditional Kongo musical instruments such as elaborate bells, all sorts of drums and whistles, have almost disappeared from Kongo life. Still, MacGaffey speaks of them in ...
insider.si.edu

Kongo across the waters / edited by Susan Cooksey, Robin Poynor, and Hein Vanhee ; with editorial assistance by Carlee S. Forbes

Part I. Kongo in Africa. 1. The culture of Mbanza Kongo / Linda Heywood and John Thornton. Focus 1. King Pedro VII of Kongo (r. 1923-55) ; 2. By the sword and the cross : power and faith in the arts ...