Yoruba music
Encyclopedia : Y : YO : YOR : Yoruba music
The music of the Yoruba people of Nigeria is best known for an extremely advanced drumming tradition, especially using the dundun hourglass tension drums. Yoruba folk music became perhaps the most prominent kind of West African music in Afro-Latin and Caribbean musical styles. Yorùbá music left an especially important influence on the music used in Lukumi practice and the music of Cuba [link].
Folk music
Ensembles using the dundun play a type of music that is also called dundun. These ensembles consist of various sizes of tension drums along with kettledrums (gudugudu). The leader of a dundun ensemble is the iyalu who uses the drum to "talk" by imitating the tonality of Yoruba. Much of Yoruba music is spiritual in nature, and is devoted to the Orisas of Yoruba mythology. See also: Yoruba folk opera.
Folk instruments
- agbe: a shaker
- ashiko: a cone-shaped drum
- apesi:
- agidibo: a sort of piano
- bata:
- dundun: comprising of "iya ilu", main drum and "omele", smaller accompaning drums
- goje: sort of violin like the sahelian kora
- gudugudu:
- bembe:
- sekere:
- saworo:
- omele:
- kannango:
- gbedu:
- agidigbo:
- sakara:
- agogo:
Popular music
Yoruba music has become the most important component of modern Nigerian popular music. Contrary to common assertions, Yoruba music is not influenced by foreign music but evolved and adapted itselt,like any other type of music, through contact with foreign instruments. It is true that music genre like the highlife, played by musicians like [Rex Lawson, [Segun Bucknor] are Nigerian/Yoryba adaptation of foreign music. These muisal genres has ttheir root in the big metropolitan cities like Lagos, Port Harcourt where people and culture mix. The whole thing boils down to rendering african, here Yoruba, musical expression using a mixture of instruments from different horizons. It is a fact that Fela couldn't have played juju or apala music with his heavy brass section. Other musicians like [[[Islam has no influence on Yoruba music only that the music was adapted to the practice of the religion. This is true of Fuji], which emerged in the late 60s/early 70s.In Nigeria's largest city, Lagos, these multicultural traditions were brought together and became the root of Nigerian popular music.
Modern styles like Salawa Abeni's waka and Yusuf Olatunji's sakara are derived primarily from Yoruba traditional music.
References
- http://www.descarga.com/cgi-bin/db/archives/Article17
From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.