Yoruba Bata Goes Global
Artists, Culture Brokers, and Fans
Klein, Debra L.
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Responding to growing international interest in the Yorùbá culture of southwestern Nigeria, practitioners of bàtá—a centuries-old drumming, dancing, and singing tradition—have recast themselves as traditional performers in a global market. As the Nigerian market for ritual bàtá has been declining, international opportunities for performance have grown. Debra L. Klein’s lively ethnography explores this disjunction, revealing the world of bàtá artists and the global culture market that helps to sustain their art.
Yorùbá Bàtá Goes Global describes the dramatic changes and reinventions of traditional bàtá performance in recent years, showing how they are continually recreated, performed, and sold. Klein delves into the lives of Yorùbá musicians, focusing on their strategic collaborations with artists, culture brokers, researchers, and entrepreneurs worldwide. And she explores how reinvigorated performing ensembles are beginning to parlay success on the world stage into increased power and status within Nigeria. Klein’s study of the interwoven roles of innovation and tradition will interest scholars of African, global, and cultural studies, anthropology, and ethnomusicology alike.
AUTHOR BIO
Debra L. Klein is professor of anthropology at Gavilan College in California.
BOOK REVIEWS
“Based on profound experiences with Yorùbá drumming and masquerading families begun over a decade ago, Debbie Klein deftly presents stories of fathers and sons following and breaking with tradition, of brothers fighting over status and funding joint enterprises, and of women as daughters and wives standing their ground with grace or fierceness. From an exquisitely-realized close ethnography of the lives of traveling performers, Klein pulls back to theorize global connections by expertly examining the discourses and politics of collaboration, placing Africa in the world in a way that no other ethnography does. Her work is rigorous and imaginative, critical and reflective.”—Carolyn Martin Shaw, University of California, Santa Cruz
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0226439550
ISBN(13-digit): 9780226439556
Dewey Decimal: 305.896/3330669
Library of Congress: 2007018906
Book Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 220
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