• Ears of the People: Ekonting Songs from Senegal and Gambia

    ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Ears of the People’ Spotlights the Ekonting, Banjo’s Ancestor
    Noah Berlatsky Posted On January 31, 2023


    If you are not an ethnomusicologist and/or from West Africa, you may well read the title Ears of the People: Ekonting Songs from Senegal and the Gambia and wonder, “What on earth is an ekonting?” The collection, and its extensive, […]


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