A junjung (or variously jung-jung, gungun, dyoung-dyoung etc.)[1] is the royal war drum of the Serer people in Senegal and the Gambia.[2] It was played on the way to the battlefield, on special state occasions as well as on Serer religious ceremonies.
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It is also the progenitor of the music of the same name found in the Caribbean.[3]
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edit- ^ 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 »
- ^ Louis Diène Faye. Mort et naissance: le monde Sereer, p56. Nouvelles Éditions africaines, 1983 ISBN 2723608689
- ^ Pathé Diagne, Tarana ou l'Amérique précolombienne : un continent africain, Harmattan, 2010, p. 260, ISBN 978-2-296-11484-5