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Yoruba music is the pattern/style of music practiced by the Yoruba people of Nigeria, Togo, and Benin. It is perhaps best known for its extremely advanced drumming tradition and techniques, especially using the gongon [ 1 ] hourglass shape tension drums .
Yoruba music is a component of the modern Nigerian popular music scene. Although traditional Yoruba music was not influenced by foreign music, the same cannot be said of modern-day Yoruba music, which has evolved and adapted itself through contact with foreign instruments, talent, and creativity.
Oworo culture bears grave resemblance with those of Bunu, Ikiri, Yagba, Ijumu and Owe people who are together with the Oworo people referred to as Okun, the word used in greeting. [1] Like the Bunu people, Oworo people were known for their bassa-like cat whisker marks. [ 8 ]
Polygamy has a longstanding history within traditional Yoruba culture. As seen in a Yoruba framework, marriage is first and foremost a union between families with the goal of childbearing rather than a romantic contract between two individuals. [34] Thus, sexual pleasure and love between the parties involved are not the objects of marriage.
The great plurality were Yoruba, from the area encompassed by the modern states of Nigeria and Benin; [13] the Yoruba had a shared language and culture but were divided among different states. [14] Most adhered to a complex system of belief and ritual, now known as Yoruba traditional religion, that had developed among the Yoruba city-states. [15]
Jùjú is a style of Yoruba popular music, derived from traditional Yoruba percussion. The name juju from the Yoruba word "juju" or "jiju" meaning "throwing" or "something being thrown". Juju music did not derive its name from juju , which is a form of magic and the use of magic objects, common in West Africa , Haiti , Cuba and other Caribbean ...
The History of the Yorubas: From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the British Protectorate. London: Cambridge University Press. Olatunji, Olatunde O. (1984). Features of Yorùbá Oral Poetry. Ìbàdàn, Nigeria: University Press PLC. Vidal, Tunji’ (1969). "Oriki in Traditional Yoruba Music". African Arts. 3 (1): 56– 59. doi:10.2307 ...
Oduduwa is regarded as the legendary progenitor of the Yoruba, and almost every Yoruba settlement traces its origin to princes of Ile-Ife in Osun State, Nigeria. As such, Ife can be regarded as the cultural and spiritual homeland of the Yoruba nation, both within and outside Nigeria.