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The Cultural Semantics of Yoruba Drum Poetry by Azeez Akinwumi Sesan is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Abstract The inevitable incursion of modernity and technology in post-colonial African Yoruba societies is rendering the nobility and royalty attached to drum poetry among the ancient Yoruba people irrelevant, as understanding the meaning of drum poetry marks the nobility and royal inclination of the decipherer. This article reviews previous studies on drum poetry/literature with participant observation/field investigation used in the collection of data. It taxonomizes drum poetry into sacred and secular. It also draws comparisons to and finds similarities with how humans and drums communicate. This paper arrives at the conclusion that tone and tonal marks within situational contexts are the hallmarks of the semantic interpretation of drum poetry
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- Author
- Azeez Akinwumi Sesan
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH; De Gruyter Mouton (ISSN 2198-9605)
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)