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- Title
Two heads of the same drum? Musical narratives within a transatlantic religion.
- Authors
Villepastour, Amanda
- Abstract
The Nigerian bata is a two-headed talking drum (spelled and pronounced bata in Cuba) and provides an apt metaphor and microcosm for the transatlantic conversations and symbiotic relationships between Nigerian and Cuban religious elites involved in the various sects of orisha religion. This article revises Gilroy's Black Atlantic (1993), challenging his term 'black music' and the notion that black Atlantic populations are fundamentally unified by shared memories of slavery. Furthermore, this discussion challenges the privileging of text in transatlantic musical studies and argues for the centralising of purely musical data across academic disciplines.
- Subjects
NIGERIA; CUBA; BATA; HOURGLASS drum; YORUBA (African people) -- Music; TALKING drum; MUSIC &; society; MUSIC; RELIGION; YORUBA (African people); ORISHAS; SLAVERY
- Publication
Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 2009, Vol 7, Issue 3, p343
- ISSN
1479-4012
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/14794010903069185