Ancient text messages of the Yorùbá bàtá drum : cracking the code / Amanda Villepastour.

The bàtá is one of the most important and representative percussion traditions of the people in southwest Nigeria, and is now learned and performed around the world. The author explains how the bàtá drummers' speech encoding method links into universal linguistic properties.

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Villepastour, Amanda, 1958- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
Series:SOAS musicology series.
Subjects: