Music of Cameroon

The music of the Cameroon includes diverse traditional and modern musical genres. The best-known contemporary genre is makossa, a popular style that has gained fans across Africa, and its related dance craze bikutsi.

The pirogue sailors of Douala are known for a kind of singing called ngoso which has evolved into a kind of modern music accompanied by zanza, balafon, and various percussion instruments.

phase: the time when imaginary, mythological, and spiritual issues are discussed

Ekang

Bikutsi phase: when real-life issues are discussed

List of musical instruments of Cameroon

Nkolo, Jean-Victor and Graeme Ewens. "Music of a Small Continent". 2000. In Broughton, Simon and Ellingham, Mark with McConnachie, James and Duane, Orla (Ed.), World Music, Vol. 1: Africa, Europe and the Middle East, pp 440–447. Rough Guides Ltd, Penguin Books. 1-85828-636-0

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(in French) Musée d'ethnographie de Genève. Accessed November 25, 2010.

Audio clips: Traditional music of Cameroon.

a history of bikutsi

Audio clip (60 minutes): BBC Radio 3. Accessed November 25, 2010.

Cameroon - The Baka Music House.

French National Library. Accessed November 25, 2010.