Akpata - Akpata

...There are no special arrangements other than the designated location for participants. The other is called Okpobuhie (meaning "playing an instrument while people sleep"), and is held on a large scale on special occasions such as naming newborns, weddings, funerals, and other rites of passage, by professional storytellers who play the akpata (a seven-string guitar of Congo origin). There is no strict difference in the content of the stories told by the two groups, and a wide range of subjects are chosen from people's everyday experiences and Oba legends (such as the conquest wars of the Benin kings).

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…参加者の居場所が指定されるほかは特別な約束がない。もう一つはオクポブヒエ(〈人々が寝ている間に楽器を鳴らす〉の意)と呼ばれ，アクパタ(コンゴ起源の7本弦ギター)を奏でる職業的語り手が，新生児の名付けや冠婚葬祭その他の通過儀礼などハレの日に大がかりに行う。両者の語りの内容に厳密な差異はなく，人々の日常体験やオバ伝説(ベニン王の征服戦争など)から多岐な題材が選ばれる。…

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