| PortraitsAka Women and Men(Italian concert tour of a group of Aka Pygmies from the Central African Republic's rainforest)Photos, texts and audio recordings by Luis DevinSoundscape: polyphonic counterpoint of an Aka song (Aka Pygmies of the Central African Republic). | | | | | | | | | 4. Aka elderly man at a concert rehearsal. | | | | | | | |
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Music anthropologist and writer, he has carried out field research in central Africa, where he lived with the Baka Pygmies and other forest peoples, whose music, rituals and survival strategies he has been studying for more than a decade. www.luisdevin.comwww.facebook.com/LuisDevin | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | HOME SECTION INDEX BACKPhoto potraits (Aka Pygmy people), with soundscape and descriptive notes (Italian concert tour of a group of Aka Pygmies from the Central African Republic's rainforest).Photos, texts and audio recordings by Luis Devin. Page URL: http://www.pygmies.org/aka/portraits.phpPhotos, videos and sounds are available for licensing, both for multimedia use and paper publications. For the terms and conditions, contact the author from the Contact page. The time in the tropical rainforests of the Western Congo Basin, where the Aka Pygmy people live, is 03:56. Every minute, at least 25 hectares (250.000 m²) of forest are destroyed around the world (source: WWF). Go to the Other Pygmy Peoples section indexCopyright © 1998-2024 Luis Devin. All rights reserved. | | | | | | | |
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