Ancient text messages of the yoruba bata drum: cracking the code
Auteur :
Villepastour, Amanda
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9780754667537
Date de publication :
28 avr. 2010
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Poids :
1000 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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. The author explains how the bata drummers' speech encoding method links into universal linguistic properties, unknown to the musicians themselves.