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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 .
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 ...
Ilorin Waka is a popular Islamic and Yoruba cultural music [1] The Ilorin Waka is an Islamic and cultural oral entertainment form, usually performed at a given ceremony. During its performance, people gather to savour the melody that the solemn danceable local rendition provides.
Sakara music is a form of popular Nigerian music based in the traditions of Yoruba music. It mostly in the form of praise songs, that uses only traditional Yoruba instruments such as the solemn-sounding goje violin, and the small round sakara drum , which is similar to a tambourine and is beaten with a stick. [ 1 ]
Waka music is a popular Islamic-oriented Yoruba musical genre. [1] It was made popular by Alhaja Batile Alake from Ijebu , who took the genre into the mainstream Nigerian music by playing it at concerts and parties; also, she was the first waka singer to record an album.
Apala (or akpala) is a music genre originally developed by the Yoruba people of Nigeria, [1] during the country's history as a colony of the British Empire. It is a percussion-based style that originated in the late 1930s.
Were music (Yoruba: Wéré) is a Yoruba music, which, like ajisari, is a way of using music to arouse the Islamic faithful to pray and feast during Ramadan festival in Yorubaland. Ajiwere or oniwere means "one who performs were music." Unlike ajisari, were is performed in groups.
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