Yorùbá Bàtá Goes Global: Artists, Culture Brokers, and Fans

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Responding to growing international interest in the Yorùbá culture of southwestern Nigeria, practitioners of bàtá—a centuries-old drumming, dancing, and singing tradition—have recast themselves as traditional performers in a global market. As the Nigerian market for ritual bàtá has been declining, international opportunities for performance have grown. Debra L. Klein’s lively ethnography explores this disjunction, revealing the world of bàtá artists and the global culture market that helps to sustain their art. Yorùbá Bàtá Goes Global describes the dramatic changes and reinventions of traditional bàtá performance in recent years, showing how they are continually recreated, performed, and sold. Klein delves into the lives of Yorùbá musicians, focusing on their strategic collaborations with artists, culture brokers, researchers, and entrepreneurs worldwide. And she explores how reinvigorated performing ensembles are beginning to parlay success on the world stage into increased power and status within Nigeria. Klein’s study of the interwoven roles of innovation and tradition will interest scholars of African, global, and cultural studies, anthropology, and ethnomusicology alike.

Author(s): Debra L. Klein
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Year: 2007

Language: English
Commentary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat%C3%A1_drum
Pages: 258
City: Chicago
Tags: bata,yoruba, nigeria, drums, music

Yoruba bata goes global
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reality
The Making of a Yoruba Culture Movement
Lamidi Ayankunlé: Father of Foreign Lands
Sculpting Osogbo: Strategic Collaborations among Yoruba Artists and Three Germanic Culture Brokers
Managing the Gap between Local and Global Stakes in Yoruba Tradition
Pop Tradition: I Am Always Me
Antipolitics of Collaboration
Conclusion: Transgressing Reality
Appendix: Program, 2004 AyanAgalt performance, Vassar College
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Formal Interviews and Praise Song Recordings
Index