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Hadzidzi

Ewe · Anlo Ewe / Volta Region, Ghana · Music/Dance

Ewe term for singing; Avorgbedor glosses it as the 'normal mode of singing'. He contrasts it with hamelo, the special half-spoken rhythmic forms worked into the hatsiatsia section of a haló performance. The word builds on ha 'song'.

Avorgbedor distinguishes ordinary hadzidzi from half-spoken hamelo passages.

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