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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 folk music became perhaps the most prominent kind of West African music in Afro-Latin ...
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 and ...
Fuji. Fújì is a genre of Yoruba popular music that emerged in Nigeria in the 1960s. It evolved from the improvisational wéré music also known as ajísari (meaning "waking up for sari ", performed to awaken Muslims before dawn during the fasting season of Ramadan. Fuji music was named after the Japanese stratovolcano -mountain, Mount Fuji by ...
Cuban music. Cultural origins. 1930s, Yoruba people in Colonial Nigeria, British West Africa. Regional scenes. Nigeria. 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.
Bolojo. 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.
Batá drum. The Batá drum is a double-headed hourglass drum [1] with one end larger than the other. The percussion instrument is still used for its original purpose as it is one of the most important drums in the Yoruba land and used for traditional and religious activities among the Yoruba. [2][3] Batá drums have been used in the religion ...
In early 1945, he produced Worse than Crime, a political play infused with Yoruba dance and ancient folk songs. Like most of his early plays, it premiered at Glover Memorial Hall, Lagos. Later in that year, he wrote The Black Forest and Journey to Heaven, two Yoruba operas that also improved his use of traditional Yoruba folklore. The latter ...
Goje violin and Sakara drum. 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]