{"id":1724,"date":"2019-08-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musikzeitung.ch\/allgemein\/westafrika-als-wiege-des-pop\/"},"modified":"2019-08-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T23:00:00","slug":"westafrika-als-wiege-des-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musikzeitung.ch\/en\/anlaesse\/2019\/08\/westafrika-als-wiege-des-pop","title":{"rendered":"West Africa as the cradle of pop"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musikzeitung.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/800px-African_bass_drums-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Set of three African bass drums from left to right: Kenkeni, Dundun, Sangbang. Proof see below<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class='text-section'>\n<p>\"Speaking with drums\", the title of the exhibition, is to be understood literally: Drummers in West Africa use their instruments to imitate the rhythm and melody of spoken language. For example, those of the Yor\u00f9b\u00e1 in southwest Nigeria or those of the Ashanti in Ghana - tonal languages in which the pitch of a syllable determines the meaning of a word.<\/p>\n<p>At political and religious events, the percussionists greet guests of honor with their talking drums and quote their biographies; they recite prayers or proverbs; they talk about past events, take a political stand and thus mediate between current events and history.<\/p>\n<p>Even during the colonial era and at the time of the transatlantic slave trade, drummers raised their voices and combined their music with influences from other musical cultures. 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