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Yoruba Bata Goes Global: Artists, Culture Brokers, and Fans. Debra L. Klein. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. 220 pp.
the 1980s, Yorubaland (Southwestern Nigeria), like most African societies, continue to experience a mixture of a depressed economy, increased encounter between modernity and tradition, and the challenges of globalization. Yoruba Bata Goes Global analyses these issues. Undoubtedly, a book on a Yoruba art form, bata drumming, it situates this old but esteemed vocation within the context of local, national and global studies. Rather than merely describing bata, a double-headed percussion instrument with one cone larger than the other, and used mainly for religious and secular purposes in Yorubaland, and its position in Erin Osun, nay Yoruba society, the book revolves around mini-histories of peoples, places and events: Lamidi Ayankunle, Iyaloja compound, Erin Osun, Yorubaland, art-tourism, client-p(m)atron relationship, Nigeria under the Structural Adjustment Program, 'World Music' and Euro-American fascination (curiosity) with African 'tradition' all of which are integrated to provide a grand narrative.
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