Companion to Chapter 6

The Use of Songs in the Theological Contextualization of Biblical Truth in the Gedeo Church

by Haileyesus Desalegn

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Map

Adapted from a Facebook post by
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

Vignettes

CHOIRS
SOLOISTS

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  • Translated from unpublished German manuscripts written in the 1930s and 1950s; p. 69ff on religious and spiritual life; preface by Getachew Senishaw; Google Books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]