<i>Music of the Ancestors: A Study of the Traditional Instrumental Music of the Iatmul of Papua New Guinea</i>

Coulter, Neil R.

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“…James (2021) shows that the structure of some surrogate systems may be elaborate enough to be subject to a formal discourse analysis. Studies on the nrwit of the Alamblak of Papua New Guinea (Coulter, 2007) and the whistled speech of the Chinantec of Mexico (Sicoli, 2016) show that some surrogate systems have unique signals marking the beginning or end of what may be potentially a lengthy discourse (see James, 2021 for more references). The paucity of studies on the discourse of surrogate speech is partly because the use of surrogate instruments to encode lengthy discourses such as narratives is not as common (see notable exceptions Armstrong, 1954 on some Nigerian surrogate systems).…”

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The narrative discourse of a bilingual talking drum: The case of the Dagomba timpani

Hudu

2023

Legon J. Hum.

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This paper analyses the discourse structure of the language of the timpani (a single-membrane goblet-shaped drum) of the Dagomba. Using data from video recordings of predawn performances and interviews with the drummers, it shows that the timpani performance is an elaborate and structured narrative discourse that blends panegyrics, prayers and exhortations directed at chiefs, citizens, spiritual and historical beings. The use of the timpani is a borrowed tradition from the Asante in the 1700s, along with many aspects of Asante cultural communication, including Akan as a dominant language of encoding. During its centuries of adaptation, it has incorporated aspects of the culture of the Dagomba, including the production of speech in Dagbani during lengthy performances, making it a unique bilingual talking drum. The paper shows that this instrumentally encoded bilingual narrative exhibits the discourse properties of oral or written text and can be subjected to the same formal discourse analysis.

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The narrative discourse of a bilingual talking drum: The case of the Dagomba timpani

Hudu

2023

Legon J. Hum.

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Music of the Ancestors: A Study of the Traditional Instrumental Music of the Iatmul of Papua New Guinea

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The narrative discourse of a bilingual talking drum: The case of the Dagomba timpani

The narrative discourse of a bilingual talking drum: The case of the Dagomba timpani

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