The Use of Songs in the Theological Contextualization of Biblical Truth in the Gedeo Church
by Haileyesus Desalegn
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Map
Gedeo Midea Network (Dec. 26, 2018)
Audio Recordings
GOSPEL MUSIC
- Words of Life audio tracts in Gedeo (copyright 1959)
Includes some gospel songs as bridges
TRADITIONAL MUSIC
- Gedeo Work Songs (recorded in the 1970s)
Vignettes
CHOIRS
- Gedeb Kale Heywet Choir (Gedeo)
SOLOISTS
- Abraham Halake (also Oromo and Amharic)
Further Readings
Getachew Senishaw. “The Nexus of Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, Livelihood Strategies and Social Institutions in Midland Gedeo Human-environment Relations.” Ph.D. dissertation, Addis Ababa Univ., 2014.
Jensen, Adolf Ellegard. The Gedeo. Edited by Sophia Thubauville. Southern Ethiopian Studies at the Frobenius Institute 1. Zürich: Lit, 2020.
- Translated from unpublished German manuscripts written in the 1930s and 1950s; p. 69ff on religious and spiritual life; preface by Getachew Senishaw; Google Books
McClellan, Charles W. “Coffee in Centre-periphery Relations: Gedeo in the Early Twentieth Century,” in The Southern Marches of Imperial Ethiopia: Essays in History and Social Anthropology, edited by Donald Donham and Wendy James, p. 175‒95. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1986. [Google Books]
Solomon Hailu Tilahun. A History of the Gedeo, 1941‒2000: A Historical Inquiry. Saarbrücken (Germany): VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2010. [= M.A. thesis, Addis Ababa Univ., 2009; amazon.com]
Teffera Jisso. “Gedeogna Oral Poetry.” B.A. thesis (?). Addis Ababa University, 1984.
Tesfatsion Petros, Ongaye Oda, and Yetebarek Hizekeal. “The Pragmatics of Blessings in Gedeo (South Ethiopia),” Kervan [International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies] 26 (2022): 69‒98. [View online]
Wedekind, Klaus. “Gedeo Work Songs in the Context of the Ethiopian Revolution (with songs recorded by Eliyas Banaata, Kebbede Gaammo, and Peter Lohmann),” Ethnorêma 9, no. 3 (2013): 1-36 [paper written in 1977]:
———. Generating Narratives: Interrelations of Knowledge, Text Variants, and Cushitic Focus Strategies. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2011. [Mainly on Gedeo; Google Books]