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, unkn…
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…
The author explains how the bata drummers' speech encoding method links into universal linguistic properties, unknown to the musicians themselves. The analysis draws direct links between what is spoken in Yoruba, how ena prescribes the drum strokes, how listeners extract linguis…
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.
The bàtá 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 bàtá tradition derives from the Yorùbá bàtá from Africa yet has had far more research attention…