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.
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