Rhythm in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Sub-Saharan African music is characterised by a "strong rhythmic interest" that exhibits common characteristics in all regions of this vast territory, so that Arthur Morris Jones has described the man
African drum made by Gerald Achee
Drummers in Accra, Ghana
Traditional healer (sangoma) of South Africa dancing to the rhythm of the drum in celebration of his ancestors
Kids in Alexandra township, South Africa, playing around on their father's drums
Djembe
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A djembe or jembe is a rope-tuned, skin-covered goblet drum played with bare hands from the Sabar family, originally from Senegal that is widely used in West Africa. According to the Bambara people in
Rhythm in Sub-Saharan Africa
…classed as membranophones and consist of a skin or "drumhead" stretched over the open end of a frame or "shell". Well known African drums include the djembe and the talking drum. Many aspects of African drumming, most notably time-keeping, stem from instruments such as shakers made of woven baskets or gourds…
Lenke wood djembe from Mali
Les Ballets Africains in Bonn, Germany, 1962
Djembefola DVD cover
Spectrum analysis of a bass. The big hump is the Helmholtz resonance.