Ancient text messages of the Yorùbá bàtá drum: cracking the code

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Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables List of Music Examples List of CD Example Acknowledgements Introduction The Research Numbering System The Recordings The Musical Transcriptions The Notation Orthography Outline of the Chapters How (Not) to Use this Book 1 The Telegraph without Wire Secret or Little-known? The Articulate 'Stammerer' Previous Studies of Speech Surrogacy and Yoraba Drumming The Yoraba People and their Religious Practices Yorùbá Drums The Bàtá's Repertoire Research Collaborators 2 An Extension of Mouth: How the Bàtá Talks The Bàtá's Textual Repertoire A Critique of Previous Literature on the Bàtá's Drum Language Towards a Grammar of the Bàtá's Speech Surrogacy System Summary 3 Other Voices: The Omele Méta and the Ìyáàlù Dùndún The Omele Méta comparing the Omele Meta’s speech surrogacy with the traditional Bàtá The Ìyáàlù Dùndún Comparing the Ìyáàlù Dùndún's Speech Surrogacy with the Ìyálù Bàtá A Concluding Comparison of the Bàtá, the Omele Méta and the Dùndúm 4 Speaking in Codes: Ẹnà Bàtá Ẹnà Terminology and Devices Drum Ẹnà – The Mapping of Vocables onto the Bàtá The Transformation of 'Natural Language' into 'Machine Language' The Mapping of Yorùbá Language onto Ẹnà Bàtá Spoken Ẹnà – Expanding the Code Broken Ẹnà – Mixing up the Code Conclusions about Ẹnà Bàtá Epilogue: Bàtá is the Mouthpiece of Awo Separating Performer, Instrument and Listener Secrecy, Revelation, Ethics and the Impact of Scholarly Research Coda Appendix I: Research Methods Appendix II: Musical Transcriptions find Text Translations Bibliography Discography Index