The Yorùbá god of drumming
Subtitle: transatlantic perspectives on the wood that talks
By: edited by Amanda Villepastour ; preface by J.D.Y. Peel
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781496802934
Subjects: Yoruba (African people); Drum language; Music; Songs and music; Religious aspects; Orishas; History and criticism
Notes: "Glossary of musical and religious terms": pages 273-299.

Includes bibliographical references, discographies, and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface.; title: A drummer's tale : Àjàká of  Ọ̀tà  -- J.D.Y. Peel -- Introduction.; title: Asọ̀rọ̀ Igi (Wood that talks)  -- Amanda Villepastour -- Cosmologies.; title: Awo Àyàn : metaphysical dimensions of the Òrìṣà of drumming  -- Akínsọlá A. Akìwọwọ and David Font-Navarrete; title: Divining Àyàn: an Òrìṣà priest from Ògbómọ̀ṣọ̀ speaks -- Kawolẹ̀yin Àyángbẹ́kún with Amanda Villepastour; title: Histories.; title: My life in the bush of drums : Àyàn in Ìjẹ̀bu-Rẹ́mọ  -- John Àyànṣọolá Abíọ́dún Ògúnlẹ́yẹ with K. Noel Amherd; title: Añá or Fundamento? : the sacred Iyesá drums of Matanzas, Cuba -- Kevin M. Delgado; title: Genders.; title: Anthropomorphizing Àyàn in transatlantic gender narratives -- Amanda Villepastour -- Ochún and Añá : engendering spiritual power and empowering gendered spirits /-- Katherine J. Hagedorn; title: Identities.; title: The Cuban Añá fraternity : strategies for cohesion  -- Kenneth Schweitzer; title: Being Àyàn in a modernizing Nigeria : a multigenerational perspective -- Debra L. Klein; title: Secondary diasporas.; title: Añátivity : a personal account of the early batá community in New York City  -- John Amira; title: The making of Añá in Venezuela  -- Alberto Quintero with Michael D. Marcuzzi; title: An Ogã Alabê's Añá -- Fernando Leobons.