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How the hourglass pressure drum is built and why it can speak, how bàtá encodes speech differently and why scholars disagree about it, the Àyàn drumming lineages, and worked examples of drummed Yoruba with the acoustic measurements behind them.

Ṣàngó is the Yoruba divinity of thunder, lightning, fire, justice, and royal power, whose cult formed the theological foundation of the Ọ̀yọ́ Empire.

An exhaustive scholarly analysis of the Yoruba Egúngún festival, detailing ritual choreography, institutional offices, origin historiography, typological variants, and contemporary tourism dynamics.

An examination of the week-long festival commemorating the founder of the Oyo Empire, detailing its historical traditions, ritual officiants, performance genres, and modern institutionalization.

The organology, ensemble hierarchy, speech surrogacy, and sacred history of the Yorùbá bàtá drum across West African and transatlantic contexts.

A tale in which a bird left off the king's invitation list sings the cleared bush back into growth three times, and the king's son, who lost an ear over the bird's escape, recaptures him by drumming him into a dance.