Standard drum patterns in Nigeria
Abstract
- Abstract
- In the study of African music, it is often dangerous to draw dogmatic conclusions as what obtains in one part of the continent can many times be entirely different from the practices in other parts; and even in one particular area of research, care must be taken to look at exhaustive data before a general conclusion can be made. In spite of this, I think we can safely say that the drum is the basis of all African instrumental music -and I am not overlooking the all-xylophone orchestras of the Chopi people, who are the exception rather than the rule. I would like to mention here that by drum I mean not only the skin variety, but pot drums, wooden drums, calabash drums and all other instruments of this variety which fulfil the same functions
Description
- Description
- pages: 37-39
Subjects
People & roles
- Author
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Akpabot, Samuel
Value Annotations
Value Annotations
- Is Part Of
- Obafemi Awolowo University
Origins & context
- Title
- Standard drum patterns in Nigeria
- Type
- Text
- Language
- English
- Parent project
- International Library of African Music
- is funded by
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Rhodes University
- Place of Origin
- South Africa
- Created Date
- July 7, 1971
Rights & access
- License
- CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
- Access Rights
- Public
Identifiers & sources
- DRE ID
- eaa-99-01b3
- Identifier
-
1146
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- Type
- Publisher, distributor, or vendor stock number
Further details
- WissKI URL
- 78197