The Drum and Its Role in Yoruba Religion

Abstract

THE DRUM AND ITS ROLE IN YORUBA RELIGION BY ADEMQLA ADEGBITE (Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria) The drum is the foundation of Yoruba instrumental music. Early references to Yoruba music seem to place a high value on its use. Describing the pomp and pageantry that characterized Yoruba nobility, Richard Lander (1830) in one of his visits to the palace of a Yoruba traditional ruler, reported: The chief was seated outside his house under its verandah surrounded by about a hundred of his wives and musicians with drums and fife ...' I Witford2 described the hourglass drum as "the principal instru-

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