Ancient Text Messages of the Yoruba Bata Drum
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African percussion studies
Author_Amanda Villepastour
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coded drum communication
direct
Direct Speech Mode
Drum Language
Drum Strokes
Drum Texts
Drum Vocables
Encodes Speech
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ethnomusicology research
High Tone
Home Town
Human Language Technologies
Intrinsic Intensity
language
Lead Drums
linguistic encoding in music
low
Low Tone
Low Tone Syllable
mid
Mid Tone
mode
Open Tone
Oral Notation
Soft Vowels
speech
speech surrogate systems
Speech Tones
Stick Stroke
stroke
Syllabic Nasal
Syllable Elisions
Textual Repertoire
tonal language drum analysis
tone
Tone Glide
tones
vowel
Vowel Glide
Yoruba musicology
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754667537
- Weight: 521g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 2010
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Dr Amanda Villepastour, University of Cardiff, UK.
