Ancient Text Messages of the Yoruba Bata Drum

Released on by Amanda Villepastour
preview-18

  • Ancient Text Messages of the Yoruba Bata Drum Book Detail

  • Author : Amanda Villepastour
  • Release Date : 2016-12-05
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Genre : Music
  • Pages : 192
  • ISBN 13 : 1351958437
  • File Size : 65,65 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Ancient Text Messages of the Yoruba Bata Drum by Amanda Villepastour PDF Summary

Book Description: The bata is one of the most important and representative percussion traditions of the people in southwest Nigeria, and is now learnt and performed around the world. In Cuba, their own bata tradition derives from the Yoruba bata from Africa yet has had far more research attention than its African predecessor. Although the bata is one of the oldest known Yoruba drumming traditions, the drum and its unique language are now unfamiliar to many contemporary Yoruba people. Amanda Villepastour provides the first academic study of the bata's communication technology and the elaborate coded spoken language of bata drummers, which they refer to as 'ena bata'. Villepastour explains how the bata drummers' speech encoding method links into universal linguistic properties, unknown to the musicians themselves. The analysis draws the direct links between what is spoken in Yoruba, how Yoruba is transformed in to the coded language (ena), how ena prescribes the drum strokes and, finally, how listeners (and which listeners) extract linguistic meaning from what is drummed. The description and analysis of this unique musical system adds substantially to what is known about bata drumming specifically, Yoruba drumming generally, speech surrogacy in music and coded systems of speaking. This book will appeal not only to ethnomusicologists and anthropologists, but also to linguists, drummers and those interested in African Studies.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Ancient Text Messages of the Yoruba Bata Drum books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

The Yoruba God of Drumming

The Yoruba God of Drumming

File Size : 50,50 MB
Total View : 1846 Views
DOWNLOAD

As one of the salient forces in the ritual life of those who worship the pre-Christian and Muslim deities called orishas, the Yorùbá god of drumming, known as

Efficacy of Sound

Efficacy of Sound

File Size : 28,28 MB
Total View : 9327 Views
DOWNLOAD

The first book-length ethnographic study on music and Ifá divination in Cuba and Nigeria. Hailing from Cuba, Nigeria, and various sites across Latin America an

Women Singers in Global Contexts

Women Singers in Global Contexts

File Size : 62,62 MB
Total View : 7128 Views
DOWNLOAD

Exploring and celebrating individual lives in diverse situations, Women Singers in Global Contexts is a new departure in the study of women's worldwide music-ma