{"id":529,"date":"2007-01-23T00:55:49","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T05:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=529"},"modified":"2018-08-19T08:39:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T12:39:00","slug":"songs-of-mukanda-music-of-the-secret-society-of-the-luvale-people-of-central-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"Songs of Mukanda : music of the secret society of the Luvale people of Central Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- \t\t@page { margin: 2cm } \t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is an anthro\u00adpo\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal col\u00adlec\u00adtion songs and music which take place dur\u00ading the initiation\/seclusion peri\u00adod (<em>mukan\u00adda<\/em>) of Luvale boys of Zam\u00adbia. Most Luvale art is in the form of masks, many of which are danced with, dur\u00ading cer\u00ade\u00admonies to edu\u00adcate the ini\u00adti\u00adates and to mark the ter\u00adri\u00adtory where the cer\u00ade\u00admonies take place. The Luvale (who also live in Ango\u00adla, where they are called Lwe\u00adna) peo\u00adples are close\u00adly relat\u00aded to the Chok\u00adwe, and their his\u00adtory is inter\u00adcon\u00adnected with both Chok\u00adwe and Lun\u00adda polit\u00adi\u00adcal move\u00adments, which have his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcally dom\u00adi\u00adnated the region. They num\u00adber about 20,000. The agrar\u00adian Luvale grow man\u00adioc, cas\u00adsava, yams, peanuts, tobac\u00adco, hemp and maize (grown to make beer). They keep some sheep, goats, pigs, and chick\u00adens, but pres\u00adtige meats are wild game pro\u00advided by a restrict\u00aded secret soci\u00adety of hunters. The Luvale are divid\u00aded into two cat\u00ade\u00adgories, those who are descend\u00aded from the found\u00ading matri\u00adlin\u00adeal lines and those who are descend\u00aded from for\u00admer enslaved pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtions. The soci\u00adety is gov\u00aderned by fam\u00adily head\u00admen who owe ten\u00adu\u00adous alle\u00adgiance to local chiefs who inher\u00adit their posi\u00adtions matri\u00adlin\u00adeally from the mater\u00adnal uncle. The chiefs (<em>mwana ngan\u00adga<\/em>) con\u00adsult with a com\u00admit\u00adtee of elders and rit\u00adual spe\u00adcial\u00adists before mak\u00ading deci\u00adsions. The Luvale pre\u00adserve tra\u00addi\u00adtional reli\u00adgion, based on Kalun\u00adga, a god of cre\u00adation, and a series of nature and ances\u00adtral spir\u00adits. The music in the col\u00adlec\u00adtion is chiefly of inter\u00adest to anthro\u00adpol\u00ado\u00adgists and African musi\u00adcol\u00ado\u00adgists, but some of the songs might enter\u00adtain a casu\u00adal listener.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an anthro\u00adpo\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal col\u00adlec\u00adtion songs and music which take place dur\u00ading the initiation\/seclusion peri\u00adod (mukan\u00adda) of Luvale boys of Zam\u00adbia. Most Luvale art is in the form of masks, many of which are danced with, dur\u00ading cer\u00ade\u00admonies to educate&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=529\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[947,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-listening","category-ct-listening-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9298,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/9298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}