Abimbola, Wande (ed.) Yoruba Oral Tradition: Poetry in Music, Dance and Drama

Product Description

The articles of this volume are selections from the papers presented at the Seminar on Yoruba Oral Tradition: Poetry in Music, Dance and Drama held at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ife, Ile-Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife) in January 1974. The articles bring out the interrelationship between traditional poetry, music, dance and drama, thus emphasizing their interdependence and co-existence in African traditional culture.

This Book has Articles on: Archaeology and Oral History; Urbanisation and Oral Tradition; Traditional Education; Traditional Thought; Art and Oral Tradition; Traditional Music; Oral Literature; Oral Poetry, Rhythm, Composition and Performance Techniques; Folktale Tradition; Written Literature; and Folk Theatre.

Articles by: Wande Abimbola; Rowland Abiodun; Robert Armstrong; Adeboye Babalola; Ayo Bamgbose; Akinwumi Isola; Oyin Ogunba; Richard Olaniyan; Babalola Yai; and others.

About Wande Abimbola, the Editor 

Professor Wande Abimbola is Awise Awo Agbaye (World Spokesperson for Ifa). He has served as the Special Adviser to the President of Nigeria on Cultural Affairs and Traditional Matters; Vice Chancellor (President) of the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), and Majority Leader of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He was installed as Awise in 1981 by the Ooni of Ife on the recommendation of a conclave of Babalawos of Yorubaland in West Africa.

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