The “Maale’ization” of Wolaytta Hymns from 1960 to the Present: Ambivalences between the Said and the Sung
by Hugo Ferran
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Map
(modified from a map provided by SIL)
Audio
» Listen to presentation “Musique et culte des ancêtres chez les Maale d’Éthiopie” by Hugo Ferran
Maale Gospel Music (Video)
Maale ‘secular’ songs
» Watch selected traditional and contemporary songs
Wolaytta responsorial singing
» Watch videos
Documentaries
Maale culture:
Maale Bible translation:
Profiles and Vignettes of gospel musicians
Maale
- Agitswaa Tsossi choir [vignette]
- Abarew Asnake [vignette]
Gamo
- Gamo songwriting workshop [vignette]
- Eyob Gimbare [vignette]
Wolaytta
- Desta Biramo, * 1972 [profile]
- Yohannes Basana [‘traditional songs,’ vignette]
- Paulos Kabato, * 1960 [A.M.?; vignette]
- Humbo Shochoro Kale Heywet Choir [vignette]
- Selam Desta:
Wolaytta Hymnbooks
- View Galatay Tosas (Wolaytta, ‘Praise God’)
(?) Musical notations
- any?
Further reading on Wolaytta evangelists, etc.
Fargher, Brian, ed. Evangelizing Individuals Who Plant Churches: The Biography of Ato Sorsa Sumamo, An Ethiopian Itinerant Preacher Who Spent a Lifetime Evangelizing Individuals Who in Turn Planted Hundreds of Churches. Edmonton (Canada): Enterprise, 2007. [First edition published with the title Bivocational Missionary-Evangelist in 2002]
Krabill, James R. “Encounters: What Happens in Music when People Meet,” in Music in the Life of the African Church, edited by Roberta King et al., 57-79. Waco, TX: Baylor Univ. Press, 2008. [Six common stages of music development; view on Google Books]
Markina Meja Madero. Unbroken Covenant with God: An Autobiography in the Context of the Wolaitta Kale Heywet Church, Ethiopia. Foreword by E. P. Balisky. Belleville (Canada): Guardian Books, 2008.
Mehari Choramo. Ethiopian Revivalist: Autobiography of Evangelist Mehari Choramo. Annotated by B. L. Fargher. Edmonton (Canada): Enterprise, 1997.