Digital Bibliography

Related Websites

African Music Profiles. (n. d.). Retrieved January 26 from http://www.africanmusiciansprofiles.com/lagbaja.htm  

Bongo Central. (n.d.) Retrieved January 26, 2004 from http://www.bongocentral.com.  

Campus Program.com. (n.d.) Yoruba Mythology. Retrieved April 12, 2004 from http://www.campusprogram.com/reference/en/wikipedia/y/yo/yoruba_mythology.html

Hamill Gallery of African Art. (n.d.). Retrieved January 26, 2004 from http://www.hamillgallery.com/EXHIBITIONS/AfricanDrums.html  

The World of the Yoruba. (n.d.). Retrieved April 13, 2004 from http://www.fandm.edu/departments/Anthropology/Bastian/ANT269/yoru.html

Print Resources

Agawu, K. (2001). Review essay: An African understanding of African music. Research in African Literature, 32, 187-194.

Alaja-Browne, A. (1989). A diachronic study of change in juju music. Popular Music, 8, 231-242.

Bascom, W. R. (1984). The Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria. Prospect Heights, Illinois, Waveland Press.

Chinyowa, K. C. (2001). The context, performance and meaning of Shona ritual drama. In L. Losambe & D. Sarinjeive (Eds.), Pre-Colonial and Post-

Colonial Oramonnd Theatre in Africa (pp. 343-348). Trenton, NJ, Africa World Press.  

DeFrantz, T. F. (2002). Dancing many drums: Excavations in African American dance. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.

Eades, J. S. (1980). The Yoruba today. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Euba, A. (1970). New idioms of music-drama among the Yoruba: An introductory study. Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council, 2, 92-107.

Gray, J. (1999). Soul Force 101: Yoruba sacred music, old world and new. Retrieved March 2, 2004 from www.descarga.com/cgi- bin/db/archives/Article17

Harper, P. (1969). Dance in Nigeria. Ethnomusicology, 13, 280-295.

Nesbitt, N. (2001). African music, ideology and utopia. Research in African Literature, 32, 175-186.

Motsa, Z. (2001). The missing link in siSwati modern drama. In L. Losambe & D. Sarinjeive (Eds.), Pre-Colonial and Post-Colonial Oramonnd Theatre in

 Africa (pp. 364-374). Trenton, NJ, Africa World Press.

Nzewi, M., Anyahuru, I., & Ohiaraumunna, T. (2001). Beyond song texts—The lingual fundamental of African drum music. Research in African

 Literatures, 32, 2, 90-104.

Salamone, F. A. (1998). Nigerian and Ghanaian popular music: Two varieties of creolization. Journal of Popular Culture, 32, 11-25.

Sirayi, M. (2001). Indigenous African Theatre in South Africa. In L. Losambe & D. Sarinjeive (Eds.), Pre-Colonial and Post-Colonial Oramonnd Theatre in

 Africa (pp. 349-362). Trenton, NJ, Africa World Press.

Smith, P. O. (2001). Making words sing and dance: Sense, style and sound in Yoruba prose translation. Meta, 46. Online Journal retrieved March 2,

 2004 from www.erudit.org/revue/meta/2001/v46/n4/004197ar.pdf

Waterman, C. A. (1982). “I’m a leader, not a boss”: Social identity and popular music in Ibadan, Nigeria. Ethnomusicology, 26, 59-71.

Waterman, C. A. (1990). “Our tradition is a very modern tradition”: Popular music and the construction of Pan-Yoruba identity. Ethnomusicology, 34,

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