Junjung

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19th century junjung, from the Kingdom of Sine, part of present-day Senegal.

A junjung (or variously jung-jung, gungun, dyoung-dyoung etc.)

Gambia.[2] It was played on the way to the battlefield, on special state occasions as well as on Serer religious
ceremonies.

It is also the progenitor of the music of the same name found in the Caribbean.[3]

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Notes

  1. ^ Léopold Sédar Senghor, À l'appel de la race de Saba (1936) : « Ma tête bourdonnant au galop guerrier des dyoungs-dyoungs, au grand galop de mon sang de pur sang »