Gassire's Lute is an epic by the Soninke people of West Africa. It was collected by Leo Frobenius and published in 1921. An English prose translation was...
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1st century BC. Traditional African religion portal mythology portal Gassire's Lute Lynch, Patricia Ann; Roberts, Jeremy (2010). African Mythology, A to...
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seven-walled "city of Dioce", blend with the city of Wagadu, from the tale of Gassire's Lute that Pound learned from Frobenius. This city, four times rebuilt, with...
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University Press (1998), p. 176, ISBN 9780253334589 Jablow, Alta (1984). "Gassire's Lute: A Reconstruction of Soninke Bardic Art". Research in African Literatures...
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single author or several writers. T'heydinn, a Mauritanian epic ensemble Gassire's Lute, a West African epic about the fall of the Ghana Empire Bayajidda, a...
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significance in Soninke culture and history.: 54–55 The tradition of Gassire's lute mentions Wagadu's fall. The traditions of the Moors, Hassaniya Arabs...
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and epic entered European literature. This applies in particular to Gassire's lute, an epic from West Africa which Frobenius had encountered in Mali. Ezra...
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Wind" - 5:43 "Tarantella Rusticana" - 6:58 "Pure Stillness" - 5:39 "Gassire's Lute" - 8:55 "Woodland Trail to the Giants" - 8:08 "Bass-Star Hemispheres"...
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