The Yorùbá was one of the most important civilizations of sub-Saharan Africa. While the high quality and range of its artistic and material production have long been recognized, the art of the Yorùbá has been judged primarly according to the standards and principles of Western a…
The Yorùbá was one of the most important civilizations of sub-Saharan Africa. While the high quality and range of its artistic and material production have long been recognized, the art of the Yorùbá has been judged primarly according to the standards and principles of Western a…
Introduction : what is African in African art studies? --Orí : no òrìṣà blesses a person without the consent of his/her orí --Àṣẹ : the empowered word must come to pass --Ọṣun : the corpulent woman whose waist two arms cannot encompass --Òrúnmìlà : henceforth, Ifá priests will r…
The Yorùbá was one of the most important civilizations of sub-Saharan Africa. While the high quality and range of its artistic and material production have long been recognized, the art of the Yorùbá has been judged primarly according to the standards and principles of Western a…
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…
