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A music that is older than the pyramids: the Bayaka summon the forest spirits in enthralling song.

Publication: National Catholic Reporter
Publication Date: 13-MAY-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: A music that is older than the pyramids: the Bayaka summon the forest spirits in enthralling song.(EARTH & SPIRIT)

Article Excerpt
Born in New Jersey, Louis Sarno now lives in the village of Yandoumbe in the forests of West Central Africa with the Bayaka people, known to the outside world as Pygmies.

Mr. Sarno is a musicologist and when he heard snatches of Bayaka music on the radio, he was intrigued by its depth and raw power. He was determined to seek these people out and discover more about the music that so enthralled him.

When he first arrived in their midst,. he was given a small beehive-shaped house. The Bayaka were living in a settlement attached to a sawmill built by Yugoslavs. The ongoing destruction of the rain forest had forced them temporarily out of their millennia-old home.

Mr. Sarno lived at first on a diet of tadpoles and manioc flour. Despite offering money and gifts, all he heard from them was...

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