The Healing Drum: African Wisdom Teachings
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (558 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0892812567 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 213 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Knowledge and Enjoyment Dallas O. Bradley This was a gift to a daughter who has been drumming for several years and has appreciated learning the background of the musicshe enjoys. She has learned a great deal through it and has shared it with other drummers in her group.. An Mhuruch said Much wisdom and some silliness. Other reviewers have mentioned much of what is laudable about this book. This is mostly a story of a childhood and youth in a highly traditional village in southern Mali, with some information on Yaya Diallo's life in Bamako, the capital, and in Canada. Not much specific information on drumming itself, as this is an autobiography and not a work of ethnomusicology.Particularly intriguing is Diallo's struggle, and his manifold transformations: seen as a fool and a good-for-nothing in his home village when he was a child, he becomes a star student (not without setbacks). Consequently, he settles into a materially satisfying,. Five Stars tas Everyone should read this!
Born and raised in Mali, West Africa into the Minianka (Bamana) tribe, Yaya Diallo learned to play balafon and hand drums under the instruction of his grandfather and spiritual mentor, Nangape.
The first book of its kind, delivering a message of untapped wisdom and power from a little-known culture through the universal medium of music.. The authors explore the Minianka view of humanity, music, and the cosmos relative to work, celebration, herbal medicine, dance, trance, initiation, and death. The Healing Drum traces the extraordinary cultural legacy of the Minianka tribe of West Africa, for whom music serves a sacred, healing function for the individual and society
"The Healing Drum is more than a literary autobiography; it includes considerable ethnographic information about Minianka culture" (Shaman's Drum)"Together Diallo and Hall have collaborated to produce a text that combines anthropology, sociology, philosophy and music in a potent and thought-provoking read." (The Jazz Report)"This is not actually a scholarly book, but that is part of its strength: the subjects discussed in Part One, about Minianka culture as a whole, are those covered in standard ethnographic studies." (Ethnomusicology)"Part two provides examination of the more public role of music as a sacred healing practice in Minianka culture." (Timothy White, Editor of Shaman's Drum)"I have been searching for an authentic, traditional CD with chanting and singing, and now I have finally found it!" (Body Mind Spirit Magazine, October 2003)