Gendered space transgressors: a study of two Yorùbá female dùndún drummers

dc.contributor.authorSamuel, K.
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-22T08:32:19Z
dc.date.available2021-03-22T08:32:19Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThe contemporary Nigerian musical landscape occasionally becomes a site for contesting and negotiating the established ideology of Yoruba patriarchy. These movements are evident in many women’s decisions to venture into drumming, an age-old male dominated musical profession. Informed by the theory of spatial trialectics, this article investigates gendered space in relation to dundun drumming with a view to understanding the changing nuances of gender relations among the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria. Ethnographic techniques were used to generate data on Ara and Ayanbinrin, two well-known urban popular female dundun performers whose aspirations and career trajectories reside outside the Ayan lineage and spiritual tradition. Biographical accounts and lived experiences of both artists suggest that women’s agency in Yoruba drumming is hedged by different, prevailing socioeconomic contexts, including a determination to challenge limitations to a career path and economic progress. By describing how female dundun drumming may be regarded as a response to social and musical change, and discussing how issues of masculinity and femininity are constructed, negotiated and contested, I argue that the belief forbidding women from playing Yoruba drums is not strictly applicable to the dundun because the dundun ensemble is more connected to social than religious performances.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0065-4019
dc.identifier.otherui_art_samuel_gendered_2018
dc.identifier.otherAfrican Music: Journal of the International Library of African Music 10(4), pp. 160-176
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir.library.ui.edu.ng/handle/123456789/5145
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInternational Library of African Musicen_US
dc.subjectDundun drummingen_US
dc.subjectYoruba musicen_US
dc.subjectFemale drummersen_US
dc.subjectGender issuesen_US
dc.subjectMale dominanceen_US
dc.subjectGendered spaceen_US
dc.titleGendered space transgressors: a study of two Yorùbá female dùndún drummersen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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