Jonfoli


Jonfoli

Dance of the slaves. Variations aplenty.

Reference: Wolosodon / Djondon
Wolosodon (Wolosedon, Wolosodan, Djondon, Jondon, Djonfoli)
comes from the Kayes region (Stephan Rigert) or from the South
- East part of Mali, near the border with Burkina Faso (R.Clark).
It means "Dance of the Woloso", dance of the slaves. It concerns
the slaves who used to serve at the royal courts of the Mandinka
Kings and their families. The dance shows the family hounour
and family solidarity. There seems to be a quarternairy
and a ternairy version.

2nd reference:
Jonfoli is a slave dance.  There were two classes of slaves
this entailed. The Jon people were born into servitude or by
other means.  The Wolosso were a lower class of slaves,
so to speak - they were worse off.  The dance is a risque
one - and the lower class of Wolosso can really let it all hang out.

Degge is a porridge and sere is a bitter leaf.  The analogy
in the song is  here comes the Jon and the Wolosso - that's
like putting a bitter leaf into your porridge - they don't go together.

Words:

Horo juga mana jon foli kamen
A ba yere ke woloso ye
Sera degge mana jon foli kamen
A ba yere ke woloso ye


         1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 4 . . .
Bell     x . x . x . x . x . x . x . x .
Dununba  B . . . . . B . B . . . . . B .

Variation:
         1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 4 . . .
Bell     x . x . x . x . x . x . x . x .
Dununba  B . . . B . B . B . B . B . . .

         1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 4 . . .
Bell     x . x x . x x . x . x . x . x .
Sangba   . . . B . . . . . . B . B . . .


         1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 4 . . .
Jembe    B . T t B . T t B . T t B . T t


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Rainer Pollak jembe part:
         1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 4 . . .
Jembe    S . T t S . . b S . T t S . . b  

 

End Break:

         1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 4 . . .
Jembe    T . . T . . . T . . T . T . . .   

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