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- Title
Gender Dialectics of Yoruba Drum Poetry.
- Authors
SESAN, Azeez Akinwumi
- Abstract
The analytical and dialectical nature of Yoruba oral art with the inclusion of drum poetry facilitates its unending discourses. In the past and contemporary African society, gender issues have attracted critical attentions of scholars and researchers using different subject areas. In the past Yoruba societies, women were acknowledged as the performers of oral art, particularly in the genres of poetry and prose but with the exemption of drum poetry. It is on this understanding that this paper examines the impact of gender dialectics on the discourse of Yoruba drum poetry. The paper draws inferences from Ifa literary corpus for mythico-historical origin of Yoruba drums. Data are gathered through primary source (field investigations) and secondary sources (books, journals and periodicals).As a verbal art, Yoruba drum poetry has some masculinity attached to it and until recently, women are passive participants in drum poetry performance. It is established that gender dialectics has made a score as there are now the emergence of female professional drummers.
- Subjects
MASCULINITY; DRUMMERS (Musicians)
- Publication
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 2013, Vol 5, Issue 2, p168
- ISSN
0975-2935
- Publication type
Article