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Mpre - Ayigya Mesiriwa Kuo

Mpre is an old song style that would traditionally be sung by the old women in the community during a long funeral wake. It has been said that the style emerged as old women sang to help keep them awake during the vigil. Traditionally, mpre was unaccompanied and songs could be in praise of the deceased, sorrow at their passing and happiness that the deceased person has passed into the world of the ancestors. The links between mpre singing and the Asante Adowa dance drumming is made in this research paper below. Moss, Katherine, "Adowa: Funeral Dance Of Asante As A Vehicle To Express Ethnic Identity" (1998). African Diaspora ISPs. Paper 62. http://digitalcollections.sit.edu/afr...