About this minute
- Title
- Yeyi in the Forest
- Recordist
- Louis Sarno
- Contributor
- Pitt Rivers Museum
- Year
- 1993 – 1994
- Location
- Central African Republic, Africa
- Collections
- Black History Month
- Related resource guides
- Compositions, Field Recordings
Bayaka: Yeyi
In this recording you could hear a small group of women singing as they move through the forest. The language they are singing in is called ‘Yeyi’. Yeyi is a special kind of singing, a little bit like yodelling! Yeyi can be sung by one person or by big groups of sixty or more people….
