Dunun (English Wikipedia)

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"Dùndún pressure drum | musical instrument". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2020-09-10.

Mamady Keïta (2009). Djembe talk and performance with Mamady Keïta at the Big Bang festival in Dublin, Ireland (flv). Vol. Part 1. djembefola.com. Event occurs at 36:50, 44:40. Archived from the original on 3 January 2012. The word "djun djun" is neither a Malinké word, neither a French word, it would surprise me if it was an English word, it's not Spanish, it's not Chinese, I have no idea where this word "djun djun" came from. So please, please, please, do not call these instruments "djun djun". Call them their Malinké name, which is "dunun".

Question: I want to ask you the reason why you call them "dunun" rather than "djun djun". Is it because of the similarity with the word "juju"? Were the drums being used as part of juju ceremonies?
Answer: It's simply because the blacksmiths who created these instruments gave them the name "dunun". In the language of Malinke, "djun djun" doesn't exist in their language. And "juju", as you referred to it, is not the word they use in Malinké for juju. They don't use that word. It's another word in Malinké, so it's completely unrelated to the language of Malinké.

Price (2013). "Rhythms of Culture: Djembe and African Memory in African-American Cultural Traditions". Black Music Research Journal. 33 (2): 227–247. doi:10.5406/blacmusiresej.33.2.0227. ISSN 0276-3605. JSTOR 10.5406/blacmusiresej.33.2.0227. S2CID 191599752.

Price (2013). "Rhythms of Culture: Djembe and African Memory in African-American Cultural Traditions". Black Music Research Journal. 33 (2): 227–247. doi:10.5406/blacmusiresej.33.2.0227. ISSN 0276-3605. JSTOR 10.5406/blacmusiresej.33.2.0227. S2CID 191599752.

Price (2013). "Rhythms of Culture: Djembe and African Memory in African-American Cultural Traditions". Black Music Research Journal. 33 (2): 227–247. doi:10.5406/blacmusiresej.33.2.0227. ISSN 0276-3605. JSTOR 10.5406/blacmusiresej.33.2.0227. S2CID 191599752.

Alford, Wayne. "The Dark Art of the Dunun". Tanamasi West African Percussion. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved July 21, 2013.

Mamady Keïta (2009). Djembe talk and performance with Mamady Keïta at the Big Bang festival in Dublin, Ireland (flv). Vol. Part 1. djembefola.com. Event occurs at 36:50, 44:40. Archived from the original on 3 January 2012. The word "djun djun" is neither a Malinké word, neither a French word, it would surprise me if it was an English word, it's not Spanish, it's not Chinese, I have no idea where this word "djun djun" came from. So please, please, please, do not call these instruments "djun djun". Call them their Malinké name, which is "dunun".

Question: I want to ask you the reason why you call them "dunun" rather than "djun djun". Is it because of the similarity with the word "juju"? Were the drums being used as part of juju ceremonies?
Answer: It's simply because the blacksmiths who created these instruments gave them the name "dunun". In the language of Malinke, "djun djun" doesn't exist in their language. And "juju", as you referred to it, is not the word they use in Malinké for juju. They don't use that word. It's another word in Malinké, so it's completely unrelated to the language of Malinké.
Alford, Wayne. "The Dark Art of the Dunun". Tanamasi West African Percussion. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved July 21, 2013.

Price (2013). "Rhythms of Culture: Djembe and African Memory in African-American Cultural Traditions". Black Music Research Journal. 33 (2): 227–247. doi:10.5406/blacmusiresej.33.2.0227. ISSN 0276-3605. JSTOR 10.5406/blacmusiresej.33.2.0227. S2CID 191599752.