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Ancient Text Messages of the Yoruba Bata Drum: Cracking the Code - SOAS Studies in Music Amanda Villepastour 1st edition
Ancient Text Messages of the Yoruba Bata Drum: Cracking the Code - SOAS Studies in Music
Amanda Villepastour
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.
192 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | April 28, 2010 |
| ISBN13 | 9780754667537 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 192 |
| Dimensions | 161 × 240 × 19 mm · 524 g |
| Language | English |
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