Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Music, Arts, and Literature of the Nuer

    From the earliest known humans of Earth, there has been artifacts suggesting entertainment. It's not always about hunters and gatherers. The word bored didn't exist in our lifetime. Of course the earliest people "got bored". They did not have a Ipad or Ipod to just whip out and play a game on. Storytelling, music, and art were; and still are the greatest forms of entertainment. 


    Nuer arts, music and literature like in most unwritten culture are orally transmitted over generations in songs, stories and folktales. The Nuäär are very rich at songs, and folktales. Nuer arts, and music include, lyre thöm, and bul kiae “thor” which are similar to other Nilotice. The rest of African people, Nuäär articles for self-defiance there is different types of, like stick “keat” and spear “mut, bith”  long side-blown trumpet carved out of a single piece of Oryx horn that has been straightened and largely hollowed out. These tools of defense are the some of the most primal and simple but most deadly of their related culture.


    The different Nuer sections have developed their different dances: 'buul' performed during the early afternoon especially for marriages; dom-piny (a hole in the ground covered with a skin) is performed during the night where wut and nyal court themselves. Of the most important handcraft the Naath have developed is the dieny (a basket for carrying everything including children when on a long journey).

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