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Title: | The horn of my love |
Author: | Bitek, Okot p' |
Year: | 2006 |
Issue: | 147 |
Pages: | 182 |
Language: | English |
Series: | African writers series |
City of publisher: | London |
Publisher: | Heinemann |
ISBN: | 0435901478 |
Geographic term: | Uganda |
Subjects: | poetry (form) oral poetry (form) |
External link: | https://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xri:ilcs&rft_id=xri:ilcs:ft:aws_poetry:Z000848227:0 |
Abstract: | The author of 'Song of Lawino' provides his interpretation of the poetry of the Acoli of northern Uganda. He discusses the dances and occasions on which the songs are sung. In part 2 he gives texts, both in the Acoli and in his personal English translations. 1. Childrens games and songs - Orak: the love dance - The Nanga (a musical instrument) - Otole: the war dance - Funeral rites and dance. 2. Texts: Children's songs - The love song - Satirical verse - Songs of the spirit possession dance - Chants at the ancestral shrine - Songs of war - The dirges. 3. Themes in Acoli dirges - Poets as historians - Mwoc: the praise name - Warrior's titles |