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Yoruba Music in the Twentieth Century - Identity, Agency, and Performance Practice (Paperback)
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Yoruba Music in the Twentieth Century - Identity, Agency, and Performance Practice (Paperback)
Series: Eastman/Rochester Studies Ethnomusicology
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Drawing on extensive field research conducted over the course of
two decades, Bode Omojola examines traditional and contemporary
Yoruba genres of music. From the primeval age of Ayanagalu (the
Yoruba pioneer-drummer-turned-deity-of-drumming) to the modern era,
Yoruba musical traditions have been shaped by individual
performers: drummers, dancers, singers, and chanters,
wself-mediated visions of their social and cultural environment.
Yoruba 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 Yoruba genres such
as bata and dundun drumming as well as more contemporary genres
such as Yoruba popular music. The book also addresses a spectrum of
social issues, ranging from gender inequality to the impactianity
and Islam on Yoruba musical practice. Throughout, Omojola
emphasizes the interrelatedness of the different components of the
Yoruba musical landscape, as well as the role of specific
individuals and groups of musicians, whohave continued to draw from
indigenous Yoruba 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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