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Obey began experimenting with Yoruba percussion style and expanding on the band by adding more drum kits, guitars and talking drums. Obey's musical strengths lie in weaving intricate Yoruba axioms into dance-floor compositions. As is characteristic of Nigerian Yoruba social-circle music, the Inter-Reformers band excel in praise-singing for rich ...
Bọ̀lọ̀jọ̀ is an African dancing and popular musical style among the Yewa Yoruba clans situated in the western regions of Ogun State, Nigeria [1] [2] and other closely linked Yoruba subgroups in the nearby Plateau Department of Benin. It is mostly featured in festivals, parties and in Gelede shows.
Egungun, masked costumed figures of the Yoruba people. Egungun, Yoruba language: Egúngún, also known as Ará Ọ̀run (The collective dead) in the broadest sense is any Yoruba masquerade or masked, costumed figure. [1] More specifically, it is a Yoruba masquerade for ancestor reverence, or the ancestors themselves as a collective force.
The singing stops, the pitch of the musical instruments go down and the dance becomes less vigorous as an individual takes up the performance in self-praise. This is called pakruok . A unique kind of ululation, sigalagala , mainly done by women, marks the climax of the musical performance.
Yoruba folk music became perhaps the most prominent kind of West African music in Afro-Latin and Caribbean musical styles; it left an especially important influence on the music used in Santería [2] practice and the music of Cuba. [3] The Yoruba people of south-western Nigeria are also one of the most socially diverse groups on the African ...
Ojude-Oba Festival is a one-day celebration of culture, fashion, glamour, candour, beauty and royalty as sons and daughters of Ijebuland. [23] [24] The festival always commenced with prayers by the Imam of Ijebuland, then followed by the National Anthem, then the Ogun State Anthem and the Awujale Anthem, and finally the Lineage praise of the Ijebus.
Folk songs in Ewe and Kabye, are common, Fon and Yoruba songs also occur. [2] Togolese music includes a great variety of percussion-led dance music. All over Togo drums are used, by Christians and Muslims as well, to celebrate all major events of life and for festivals like the Expesoso or Yeke Yeke festival. [3]
A shout (or praise break) is a kind of fast-paced Black gospel music accompanied by ecstatic dancing (and sometimes actual shouting). It is sometimes associated with "getting happy" . It is a form of worship/praise most often seen in the Black Church and in Pentecostal churches of any ethnic makeup, and can be celebratory, supplicatory ...