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Mis/Representation of Culture in two Hampshire Churches

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2013

DENNIS OLADEHINDE ELUYEFA
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Abstract

This paper is about my experience in the ‘Church of Hampshire’ and the ‘Cosmopolitan Church of Hampshire’ (anonymous names) in Hampshire, England, where I wanted to play the dùndún and gángan (see Fig. 1), the two Yorùbá talking drums. For this I shall be adopting the stance of a reflective practitioner. I have played the dùndún in churches in Nigeria and Hungary. It was this experience that encouraged me to attempt to introduce it to the two churches, hoping that they would welcome new possibilities. This paper will analyse how such expectations were unfulfilled. The extracts in italics are taken from my personal journal. The names of the people in this paper are anonymized. I will start by thoroughly describing the position of music within the Yorùbá culture, and the nature of indigenous Yorùbá spiritual practice.

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Theatre Research International , Volume 38 , Issue 3 , October 2013 , pp. 214 - 228
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 2013 

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