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.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Ancient text messages of the Yorùbá bàtá drum : |b cracking the code / |c Amanda Villepastour. |
| 264 | 1 | |a London ; |a New York : |b Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, |c 2016. | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (xvi, 173 pages) : |b illustrations, music. | ||
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| 500 | |a Reprint. Originally published: Farnham, England : Ashgate Publishing, 2010. | ||
| 500 | |a Companion CD contains drumming examples performed by Rábíù Àyándòkun. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-166), discography (page 167) , and index. | ||
| 500 | |a "An Ashgate book"--Cover. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction. The research ; Numbering system ; The recordings ; The musical transcriptions ; The notation ; Orthography ; Outline of the chapters ; How (not) to use this book -- The telegraph without wire. Secret or little-known? ; The articulate 'stammerer' ; Previous studies of speech surrogacy and Yorùbá drumming ; The Yorùbá people and their religious practices ; Yorùbá drums ; The bàtá's repertoire ; Research collaborators -- An extension of mouth : how the bàtá talks. The bàtá's textual repertoire ; A critique of previous literature on the bàtá's drum language ; Towards a grammar of the bàtá's speech surrogacy system ; Summary -- Other voices : the omele mẹ́ta and the ìyáàlù dùndún. The omele mẹ́ta ; Comparing the omele mẹ́ta's speech surrogacy with the traditional bàtá ; The ìyáàlù dùndún ; Comparing the ìyáàlù dùndún's speech surrogacy with the ìyáàlù bàtá ; A concluding comparison of the bàtá, the omele mẹ́ta and the dùndún -- Speaking in codes : ẹnà bàtá. Ẹnà terminology and devices ; Drum ẹnà : the mapping of vocables onto the bàtá ; The transformation of 'natural language' into 'machine language' ; The mapping of Yorùbá language onto ẹnà bàtá ; Spoken ẹnà : expanding the code ; Broken ẹnà : mixing up the code ; Conclusions about ẹnà bàtá -- Epilogue. Bàtá is the mouthpiece of Awo. Separating performer, instrument and listener ; Secrecy, revelation, ethics and the impact of scholarly research ; Coda -- Appendix I. Research methods -- Appendix II. Musical transcriptions and text translations. | |
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