Music
Traditional music
Drums, balafons, lutes, flutes and polyphonic songs accompany dances, ceremonies and oral stories.
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Machine translation from French, under review. The French text is authoritative.
Each region of Chad has its own music and dances, a variety explained by the diversity of its languages and people. Traditional repertoires are sung in local languages.
Among the Teda of Tibesti, music centres on string instruments played by men and on women’s singing. Strings such as the keleli “speak for” the male performer, since it is considered improper for a man to sing in front of an adult woman.
Long royal trumpets, called waza or kakaki, accompany enthronements and other court ceremonies in both Chad and Sudan.
After independence, popular music first developed in a style close to Congolese soukous. Saï, built on rhythms from the south of the country, was popularised by the band Tibesti; other names cited include Sahel’s International Challal, African Melody, the guitarist Ahmed Pecos, influenced by Sudanese music, and Clément Masdongar.
- National hymn
- "La Tchadienne", written in 1960 by Paul Villard and Louis Gidrol
- Popular Southern Style
- Sai (Tibesti Group)
- Tibesti
- strings of men, singing of women (keleli)
To be completed (not verified)
- Archive recordings (ORTB, Radio Chad, CNRS / Museum of Man) to be identified and cited.
- Directories sara, kotoko, baguirmi, ouaddai: to be documented with ethnomusicological sources.
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