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AnguyAdyengLwal_songPadhyangCultivated
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-05-19)
The recording at the center of this item is a song. There was famine in some areas in the northern Shilluk “Gär” in the year 1985. And many people left their villages and went to the north looking for food. Some villages ...
NyadhongoTwongObany_songAlaki
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-05-19)
The recording at the center of this item is a Shilluk song. Alaki is the village of King Kwongo Daak, the present King of the Shilluk. The Shilluk King is considered to be of his maternal uncles’ village. And after his ...
OttoGwadoAyoker_songWriting
The recording at the center of this item is a Shilluk song. In early 1996, the Shilluk Language Council was divided among itself over the chair, while the literacy team and the Bible Translation team were very active. I ...
MariaBocayOnak_SurroundingFish
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-04-17)
This recording is about the ways women do fishing. The first way is called surrounding. In surrounding, women go to the river that has shallow water; they prefer rivers that are covered with reeds. When they reach the ...
OttoGwadoAyoker_songFuneralSongForAkany
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-03-18)
The recording at the center of this item is a funeral song. Akany, son of Gol Lith was chief of war in Dor Village. Dor is in Panyikango District, between Odong and Nyilwak. Nyilwak is bigger than Dor, so it was a threat ...
NyayejoCyanAyul_songWej
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-06-04)
The recording at the center of this item is a Shilluk song. Girls’ songs are like women songs; the difference is that girls focus on dancing the drum “bul”; that is the day-time dance. This song begins with a complaint ...
EmmanuelOkwacDhikwan_songToKingAkwot
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-02-24)
The recording at the center of this item is a song. The land can’t be good if people have no cows. Cows make the land beautiful and life becomes sweet, because lack of cows is poverty. And to the Shilluk people, if you ...
JuliaJamesOdhok_songWomenOfNewSite
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-02-24)
The recording at the center of this item is a 'horse song', which is normally sung by a lead singer with people answering in response. Horse dance (kyeny), is a dance in which women/girls make a long line or two and run ...
OwacciObwonyoAnay_songAFrogHasCaughtAFrog
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-04-17)
The recording at the center of this item is a song. Its composer is Amon Tuk Kaal, from Oryang Village, in Mwomo District in the far north. He was complaining to King Kur Gwang (1951-1974). Because he was jailed by the ...
JohnsonOtorKwol_songDaaksShield
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-04-17)
The recording at the center of this item is a shield song. Its composer is Daak Otong from Nyijwado Village in Tonga District. He was serving in the army in Doleib Hill, where he married the daughter of Aryal Gidbek in ...
Nyakwaci_songPenitenceTowardsNyikango
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-02-05)
This short song is about penitence towards Nyikango. Nyikango is the founder of the Shilluk Kingdom. He was both Spiritual and Political Leader. The song is repeated over and over with people dancing (thom). Nyikango, I ...
JuliaJamesOdhok_songTheFlagIsRaisedHigh
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-02-24)
The recording at the center of this item is a 'horse song', which is normally sung by a lead singer with people answering in response. Horse dance (kyeny), is a dance in which women/girls make a long line or two and run ...
EmmanuelOkwacDhikwan_songWorryingAboutMarriage
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-02-10)
This song is about anxiety over marriage, which is very important, particularly for a woman. This is evident from the dedication of a child, a week’s time after birth. The boy is dedicated to defend the land, so his maternal ...
EmmanuelOkwacDhikwan_songSquattingNearTheCookingPlace
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-02-24)
The recording at the center of this item is a song, composed by the performer. Traditionally, Shilluk men sit in lwak (= cattle byre) or under a tree during the daytime. After sunset, men gather in the centre of the village; ...
EmmanuelOkwacDhikwan_songSomebodyWithoutDowry
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-02-24)
The composer is trying to give advice to a friend who began to persuade a girl for marriage but he had no cows to pay the dowry. He says: My friend, son of Nyiyom, don't try to persuade any girl (for marriage). Don't try ...
EmmanuelOkwacDhikwan_songIStaySeparate
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-02-03)
This song belongs to the young men of the village of Dibalo (in the Ogot Konam area), who called themselves the “Germans”. This age-set, the Germans, danced with the Daughters of the Kwajwok clan of Paju for a long time ...
NyaryemiAnyangNyikango_songFlag
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-06-04)
The recording at the center of this item is a Shilluk song. In this song, the composer applauds the Lul Agwöj women’s flag. She also says that the flag was designed; it was not a ready-made flag. Lul women in the village ...
TupacLaaWol_songWol
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-01-15)
The recording at the center of this item is a song. This funeral song was composed by Ocam Ajobong from Nyibodo Village in praise of Wol Awang. Nobody will protect Alyebjok Village after the death of the son of Kwecnwon. ...
JeremiahJwokpapyejGay_songKebDance
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-03-04)
The recording at the center of this item is a song. In the dry season, in Chollo Land, the weather becomes very hot and nights are long. So, the youth gather in an open space (thwørø), usually between two villages, but ...
JeremiahJwokpapyejGay_Hunting
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-03-04)
The recording at the center of this item is a narrative. Hunting is an important economic activity to the Shilluk people. Hunting is done in the dry season after people have gathered in their crops. The narrator here is ...
