Ancient Text Messages of the Yoruba Bata Drum

Cracking the Code

SOAS Studies in Music

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The bata is one of the most important and representative percussion traditions of the people in southwest Nigeria, and is now learnt and performed around the world. The author explains how the bata drummers' speech encoding method links into universal linguistic properties, unknown to the musicians themselves.