Bode Omojola

Yorùbá Music in the Twentieth Century (eBook, PDF)

Identity, Agency, and Performance Practice

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Produktbeschreibung

From the primeval age of Ayànàgalú (the Yorùbá pioneer-drummer-turned-deity-of-drumming) to the modern era, Yorùbá musical traditions have been shaped by individual performers: drummers, dancers, singers, and chanters, wself-mediated visions of their social and cultural environment. Yorùbá Music in the Twentieth Century explores the role of the performer and the performing group in creating these traditions, contributing to the ongoing reorientation of scholarship on African music toward individual creativity within a larger social network.

Drawing on extensive field research conducted over the course of two decades, Bode Omojola examines traditional Yorùbá genres such as bàtá and dùndún drumming as well as more contemporary genres such as Yorùbá popular music. The book also addresses a spectrum of social issues, ranging from gender inequality to the impactianity and Islam on Yorùbá musical practice. Throughout, Omojola emphasizes the interrelatedness of the different components of the Yorùbá musical landscape, as well as the role of specific individuals and groups of musicians, whohave continued to draw from indigenous Yorùbá musical resources to create new musical forms in the process of engaging the social dynamics of a rapidly changing environment.

Awarded honorable mention in the 2014 Kwabena Nketia Book Competition of the African Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology.

Bode Omojola is a Five College Associate Professor of Music at Mt. Holyoke College.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781805431732
• Artikelnr.: 68339503

Autorenporträt

Bode Omojola

Inhaltsangabe

Yorùbá Drumming: Performance Practice and the Politics of Identity Talking
and Stammering: Toward an Analysis of Yorùbá Drumming Songs of the King's
Wives: Gendered and Social Identities inYorùbá Vocal Performance The
Aírégbé Song Tradition of Yorùbá Female Chiefs Yorùbá Music in the
Christian Liturgy: Notation, Performance,and Identity Yorùbá Music in
Christian Worship: The Aládurà Church Yorùbá Popular Music: Hybridity,
Identity, and Power Yorùbá Islamic Popular Music Conclusion Appendixes A:
Fieldwork B: Audio Track List