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Article: Yoruba Bata Goes Global: Artists, Culture Brokers, and Fans.(Book review)
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- African Studies Quarterly
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- September 22, 2008
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Yoruba Bata Goes Global: Artists, Culture Brokers, and Fans. Debra L. Klein. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. 220 pp.
the 1980s, Yorubaland (Southwestern Nigeria), like most African societies, continue to experience a mixture of a depressed economy, increased encounter between modernity and tradition, and the challenges of globalization. Yoruba Bata Goes Global analyses these issues. Undoubtedly, a book on a Yoruba art form, bata drumming, it situates this old but esteemed vocation within the context of local, national and global studies. Rather than merely describing bata, a double-headed percussion instrument with one cone larger than the other, ...