ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Ears of the People’ Spotlights the Ekonting, Banjo’s Ancestor
If you are not an ethnomusicologist and/or from West Africa, you may well read the title Ears of the People: Ekonting Songs from Senegal and the Gambia and wonder, “What on earth is an ekonting?”
The collection, and its extensive, well-written liner notes, answer that question at great and
