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The Yor̀ùbá god of drumming : transatlantic perspectives on the wood that talks

Title
The Yor̀ùbá god of drumming : transatlantic perspectives on the wood that talks / edited by Amanda Villepastour ; preface by J.D.Y. Peel.
Publication
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]

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Additional Authors
Villepastour, Amanda, 1958-
Description
xxv, 312 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index.
Contents
Preface: A drummer's tale: Àjàká of ̣Òtà / J.D.Y. Peel -- Introduction: As̀ọṛò Igi (Wood that Talks) / Amanda Villepastour -- Awo Àyàn: metaphysical dimensions of the ̓Orìṣà of drumming / Akinṣọlá A. Akiwọwọ and David Font-Navarrete -- Divining Àyàn: an ̓Orìṣà priest from Ògbóṃòṣ̣ó speaks / Kawoḷèyin Àyángḅékún, with Amanda Villepastour -- My life in the Bush of drums: Àyàn in Ìj̣èbu-Ṛémọ / John Àyànṣọolá Abị́ódún Ògúnḷéyẹ, with K. Noel Amherd -- Añá or Fundamento? : the sacred Iyesá drums of Matanzas, Cuba / Kevin M. Delgado -- Anthropomorphizing Àyàn in transatlantic gender narratives / Amanda Villepastour -- Ochún and Añá: engendering spiritual power and empowering gendered spirits / Katherine J. Hagedorn -- The Cuban Añá fraternity: strategies for cohesion / Kenneth Schweitzer -- Being Àyàn in a modernizing Nigeria: a multigenerational perspective / Debra L. Klein -- Añátivity: a personal account of the early Batá community in New York City / John Amira -- The making of Añá in Venezuela / Alberto Quintero, with Michael D. Marcuzzi -- An Ogã Alabê's Añá / Fernando Leobons.
Call Number
Sc E 16-77
ISBN
  • 9781496802934
  • 1496802934
  • 9781496803504 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2015015799
OCLC
907948422
Title
The Yor̀ùbá god of drumming : transatlantic perspectives on the wood that talks / edited by Amanda Villepastour ; preface by J.D.Y. Peel.
Publisher
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index.
Added Author
Villepastour, Amanda, 1958- editor.
Research Call Number
Sc E 16-77
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