Louis Sarno (1954–2017)
Auteur van Het lied van het regenwoud
Over de Auteur
Louis John Sarno Jr. was born in Newark, New Jersey on July 3, 1954. He received a degree in English from Rutgers University. He did postgraduate work in comparative literature at the University of Iowa and then moved to Amsterdam with his wife, where she was a Fulbright scholar. While there, he toon meer heard a radio broadcast of Bayaka music. After contacting the anthropologist Colin Turnbull, Sarno flew to Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, then traveled 600 miles overland in search of the BaBenzl Pygmies. He separated from his wife and remained in Africa permanently beginning in 1988. He befriended the BaBenzl Pygmies and recorded and preserved their music. He was granted citizenship in 2005. He wrote Song from the Forest and Bayaka: The Extraordinary Music of the BaBenzl Pygmies. His films included Oka and Song from the Forest. He died from complications of liver ailments on April 1, 2017 at the age of 62. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Bayaka: The Extraordinary Music of the Babenzele Pygmies and Sounds of Their Forest Home (1995) 17 exemplaren
Echoes of the Forest: Music of the Central African Pygmies (The Musical Expeditions Series/Book and Compact Disc T… (1995) 2 exemplaren
Song From The Forest 1 exemplaar
Song from the Forest 1 exemplaar
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- Geboortedatum
- 1954-07-03
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2017-04-01
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- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Cliffside Park, New Jersey, USA
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- 5
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- 103
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- #185,855
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- 3.4
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- 1
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- 12
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- 3
This review is from: Song from the Forest (Hardcover)
Drawn to visit the pygmies of the Central African Republic after hearing their music - "a densely polyphonic sound...soft yodels...a sense of musical development" - this is the account of Sarno's first encounter with the Ba-Benjelle tribe.
He soon finds life with them very different to his expectations as "they seemed intent only on milking me for all I was worth". The Ba-Benjelle live close to a village, their life a combination of the forest and the worldly pleasures of shops: cigarettes, palm wine and marijuana. But Sarno manages to become a part of their group, recording numerous dances and shamanistic gatherings (although we presume the dancing spirits to be just men in costume, this is never clarified, the author himself admitting at one point that he was left "staring in amazement, as flabbergasted as the villagers.")
We also follow his visits into the rain forest, helping with hunting; and the diseases and insects that are a part of life. And Ngbali, the beautiful but enigmatic Be-Benjelle girl with whom the author has become smitten...
An extremely well written and compelling book.… (meer)