The music of the Yoruba people of Nigeria is best known for an extremely advanced drumming tradition, especially using the dundun hourglass tension drums. Yoruba folk music became perhaps the most prominent kind of West African music in Afro-Latin and Caribbean musical styles. Yorùbá music left an especially important influence on the music used in Lukumi practice and the music of Cuba [1]. For other uses, see Music (disambiguation). ... The Yoruba (Yorùbá in Yoruba orthography) are a large ethno-linguistic group or ethnic nation in Africa; the majority of them speak the Yoruba language (ede Yorùbá). The Yoruba constitute approximately 30 percent of Nigerias total population[], and around 22 million individuals throughout the region of West... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ... The Djun-Djun or Djum-Djum (pronounced dununs or dundun) is a cylindrical, double-headed bass drum carved from solid Dembu log and using with cow skin membranes. ... Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and for the common people. ... West Africa is far-reaching, stretching from the Sahara Desert to the Atlantic Ocean. ... Afro-American music is a broad array of musical genres that arose from the synthesis of African, European and Native American music. ... Lukumí or Regla de Ocha, most widely known as Santeria, is a set of related religious systems that fuse Catholic beliefs with traditional Yorùbá beliefs. ... The Caribbean island of Cuba has been influential in the development of multiple musical styles in the 19th and 20th centuries. ...

Folk music

Ensembles using the dundun play a type of music that is also called dundun. These ensembles consist of various sizes of tension drums along with kettledrums (gudugudu). The leader of a dundun ensemble is the iyalu who uses the drum to "talk" by imitating the tonality of Yoruba. Much of Yoruba music is spiritual in nature, and is devoted to the Orisas of Yoruba mythology. See also: Yoruba folk opera. Tonality is a system of writing music according to certain hierarchical pitch relationships around a key center or tonic. ... Yoruba (native name ede Yorùbá, the Yoruba language) is a dialect continuum of West Africa with over 22 million speakers. ... This article is about the type of spirit. ... The mythology of the Yorùbá is sometimes claimed by its supporters to be one of the worlds oldest widely practised religions. ...

Folk instruments

• agbe: a shaker
• ashiko: a cone-shaped drum
• apesi:
• agidibo: a sort of thumb piano
• bata: a well decorated traditional drum of many tones
• dundun: comprising of "iya ilu", main drum and "omele", smaller accompanying drums
• goje: sort of violin like the sahelian kora
• bembe: sort of band drum a la kettle drum
• sekere: a melodic shaker; beads or cowrie shells beautifully wound around a gourd
• saworo: like agogo, but its tone is low-pitched
• omele: a smaller, two-pronged, bata
• kannango:
• gbedu: another name for dundun or iya ilu
• gudugudu: a smaller, melodic bata
• sakara: goat skin is stretched over a clay ring to form a percussive drum
• agogo: a high-pitched tone instrument like a 3-dimensional "tuning fork"
• aro: much like a saworo
• seli: a combination of aro, saworo and hand-clapping

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Popular music

Yoruba music has become the most important component of modern Nigerian popular music. Contrary to common assertions, Yoruba music is not influenced by foreign music but evolved and adapted itself, like any other type of music, through contact with foreign instruments. It is true that music genres like the highlife (played by musicians like Rex Lawson, Segun Bucknor) and (King Sunny Ade's) juju are Nigerian/Yoruba adaptations of foreign music. These musical genres have their roots in the big metropolitan cities like Lagos, Ibadan, and Port Harcourt where people and culture mix. The whole thing boils down to rendering African, here Yoruba, musical expression using a mixture of instruments from different horizons. It is a fact that Fela Kuti couldn't have played juju or apala music with his heavy brass section. Other Yoruba musicians derived their influences in Islam. It is senseless to opine that Islam has/had no influence on Yoruba music; most Yoruba singers/musicians, if not all, (with the exceptions of juju; even so, certain Muslim juju musicians such as Tunde Nightingale and Ayinde Bakare predated King Sunny Ade, Ebenezer Obey and many popular christian juju musicians), had their roots or influences in Islam. Take for instance, sakara played by the pioneers such as Ojo Lawale in Ibadan, Abibu Oluwa, Yusuf Olatunji, Sanusi Aka and etc. In fact, many students of history would recall how Yusuf Olatunji had to convert to Islam in order to succeed in his career. What about apala, which was played by Muslim pacesetters such as Haruna Ishola, Sefiu Ayan, Kasumu Adio and etc. Also, it will be simplistic and, far-fetched, to say that these musical genres were only "adapted to the practice of the (Islamic) religion." This is true of Fuji, which emerged in the late 60s/early 70s, as an offshoot of were/ajisari music genres, which were made popular by certain Ibadan singers/musicians such as the late Alhaji Dauda Epo-Akara and Ganiyu Kuti or "Gani Irefin." It's even laughable to hear that waka music played and popularized by Batile Alake and, more recently, Salawa Abeni has/had nothing to do with Islam. In both Ibadan (Nigeria's largest city), and Lagos (Nigeria's most populous city), these multicultural traditions were brought together and became the root of Nigerian popular music. Highlife is a musical genre that originated in Ghana and Sierra Leone in the 1920s and spread to other West African countries. ... Rex Lawson (c. ... King Sunny Ade King Sunny Adé (Sunday Adeniyi, born 1946) is by far the most popular performer of Nigerian juju music. ... For other uses, see Juju (disambiguation). ... Lagos (pron. ... 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The followings are true traditional Yoruba music and instruments: (1) sekere, a melodic shaker; beads or cowrie shells beautifully wound around a gourd. The gourd is then violently shaken and beaten by fists; ocassionaly, it's hoisted up in the air to create a festive mood. (2) agogo, a high-pitched tone instrument like a 3-dimensional "tuning fork". (3) saworo, like agogo but, its tone is low-pitched. (4) agidigbo, a cone-shaped drum. (5) bata, a well decorated traditional drum of many tones. (6) dundun, comprising of "iya ilu", main or "mother" drum and omele, smaller accompanying drums. (7) gudugudu, a smaller, melodic bata. (8) goje, sort of violin like the sahelian kora. (9) omele, a smaller, two-pronged, bata. (10) bembe, sort of band drum a la kettle drum. (11) aro, a low-pitched instrument, much like a saworo. (12) seli, a combination of aro, saworo and hand-clapping. Agogo is a rarities album by KMFDM. Agogo is comprised of numerous tracks either previously unreleased, released on other compilations, or otherwise not widely available. ... Bata is a minor goddess in very early Egyptian mythology; Bata (martial arts) is also a term for Irish stick fighting; Bàtá is a drum common among the Yoruba (of West Africa) and in the Caribbean; the Bata people of Cameroon; Bata, Afghanistan is a place in Afghanistan; Bata... The Djun-Djun or Djum-Djum (pronounced dununs or dundun) is a cylindrical, double-headed bass drum carved from solid Dembu log and using with cow skin membranes. ... Bata is a minor goddess in very early Egyptian mythology; Bata (martial arts) is also a term for Irish stick fighting; Bàtá is a drum common among the Yoruba (of West Africa) and in the Caribbean; the Bata people of Cameroon; Bata, Afghanistan is a place in Afghanistan; Bata... A goje is a one- or two-string fiddle from northern Ghana. ... Bata is a minor goddess in very early Egyptian mythology; Bata (martial arts) is also a term for Irish stick fighting; Bàtá is a drum common among the Yoruba (of West Africa) and in the Caribbean; the Bata people of Cameroon; Bata, Afghanistan is a place in Afghanistan; Bata... Bembe is an African drumming party, most notably performed by the Yoruba tribe. ... ARO SA (short for Auto Romania) is an off-road vehicle manufacturer located near the town of Campulung Muscel, Romania. ... The Souliotes (Greek: Σουλιώτες) are the inhabitants of Souli (Σούλι) who live in the mountains of Mourgas in Epirus in northwestern Greece. ...

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