Format | On Demand CD |
Ordering Number | SFW40440-CCD |
Barcode | 093074044025 |
label | Smithsonian Folkways |
Release date | 4/6/2005 |
Release date | 1/23/1996 |
salesrank | 6629 |
Benin, West Africa is the home to several Yoruba religious cults based on a pantheon of gods. Overlapping rhythms embedded with symbolic religious meanings are played by a variety of drum ensembles including cylindrical bata drums, hourglass-shaped dundun talking drums, and the tall gelede drums.