Uploaded August 2010: "Just as in Melanesia, anciently, from washing clothes, women developed a unique style of music by beating drums on the water." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXzWbmAUrrQ


This youtube video does not mention what part of Africa this takes place in. I just LOVE this video and have watched it over and over again. I'm stuck by the JOY in the children's faces as they sing and drum, and fascinated with making a drum out of WATER. I've never seen anything like it before.

I found this doing an internet search: 

"Another way that the women and girls play music is to literally 'play the river'. A group of them will stand in water up to their waists and with cupped hands hit the surface of the water. Each of them will play a different rhythmic pattern which together form a more complex synchopated rhythm. The sound of this drumming coupled with their laughter carries across the forest."  The Baka live in the Congo Basin of the Central African Republic. Music of the Baka Forest People, http://www.baka.co.uk/baka/song.htm 

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