Song from the forest
Subtitle: my life among the pygmies
By: Louis Sarno ; foreword by Alex Shoumatoff ; afterword by Michael Obert
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: San Antonio, Texas
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781595347480; 9781595347497
Subjects: Benjelle (African people); Social life and customs; History and criticism; Music
Description: "For twenty-five years Louis Sarno has been recording the polyphonic and hypnotic music of the Bayaka people in Central Africa. Here is his account of his efforts to protect the Bayakas' fragile existence in an increasingly destructive world, and of their culture's extraordinary beauty and spiritual sophistication"--