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Basongye Musicians and Institutionalized Social Deviance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2019

Alan P. Merriam
Alan P. Merriam*
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Indiana Univ., Bloomington, Ind
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The problem to be attacked in this paper concerns the social status, role, and behavior of male musicians in the village of Lupupa Ngye, one of four villages in the Bapupa cluster of the Bala subdivision of the Basongye people of the Republic of Zaïre. More specifically, the questions posed are why life should be organized in the particular pattern described below, and why that pattern should apply specifically to musicians and not, for example, to bicycle repairmen or to horticulturalists. Further, since the pattern involves three quite distinguishable facets, the further question is whether the problem is best approached in terms of each of the aspects taken separately, or whether it is more easily explicable when taken as a whole.

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Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council , Volume 11 , 1979 , pp. 1 - 26
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Copyright © 1979 By the International Folk Music Council 

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