Madagascar
Madagascar
Work by: Eunice Kim
Edited by: Caroline Khameneh
- General Information
- Independence: June 26, 1960
- Population: 22 million
- Size: 226,597 square miles
- Capital: Antananarivo
- Ethnic Groups
- Merina
- Located: central plateau of Madagascar
- Fact: Burying ancestors in family tombs, and believed that ancestors can intervene in events on Earth for good or for ill.
- Betsimisaraka
- Located: east-central and northeastern coast of Madagasvar
- Fact: Speak a dialect of Malagasy, the West Austronesian language
- Bara
- Located: south central region of Madagascar
- Fact: cattle farmers
- Antanosy
- Located: southeast coast of Madagascar
- Fact: poorest people in Madagascar
- Merina
- Genres
- Folk music
- political songwriting led by the group Tarika
- Salegy
- best known and most widely exported dance pop music of Madagascar
- Characterized by gently rippling guitar work, organ or keyboards and sometimes accordion as well as powerful vocal harmonies
- Hiragasy
- kabary oratory performed by a troupe
- Merina ethnic group
- Tsapika
- Malagasy country music
- Fast(people in that region talk fast), rowdy dance-pop genre has developed in beach-side towns in the poor, neglected South of Madagascar
- Folk music
- Instruments
- Valiha
- Known as: tube zither
- Fact: made from local bamboo
- Mandoliny
- Known as: square-shaped string instrument
- Fact: homemade lute
- Jejy voatovoo
- Known as: three stringed instrument
- Fact: long-necked sitar piece with two sets of three strings stretched across a large open gourd
- Sodina
- Known as: wood flute
- Fact: used in popular and traditional folk music of Madagascar
- Valiha
- Artists
- Rajery
- Jazz genre
- Known for playing valiha
- Tao Ravao
- Afro-blues
- A popular album is Tao Kabosy Ravao
- Tarika Sammy
- Based musical tradition
- A label is Xenophile
- Rakoto Frah
- Vakindrazana
- Plays the sodina
- A label is Chants et Dnses en Imerina
- Rajery
- Scholars
- August Schmidhofer
- Michel Domenichini-Ramiaramanana
- R. Emoff
- References
- http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/355562/Madagascar/279540/Ethnic-groups
- http://www.mapsofworld.com/madagascar/society-and-culture/
- http://www.wildmadagascar.org/people/ethnic_groups.html
- http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/africa/mg2.htm
- http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca/sgc-cms/expositions-exhibitions/instruments/Anglais/maaua_c_txt07_en.html
- http://en.wikipedia.org
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