The Language of Gángan, A Yorùbá Talking Drum

It is widely known that Yorùbá drummers communicate through their native drums. This paper investigates the grammar of gángan, which belongs to a family of Yoruba drums called dùndún. The results of this study show that Yorùbá drummers represent the phonetic realisation of lexical and grammat...

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Main Author: Samuel Kayode Akinbo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Communication
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2021.650382/full