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In Search of an Indigenous African Hymnody: The Aladura Churches among the Yoruba

In Search of an Indigenous African Hymnody: The Aladura Churches among the Yoruba In Search of an Indigenous African Hymnody: The Aladura Churches among the Yoruba Christopher Brooks This discussion considers the effect of various Western Christian hymn traditions on the emergence of an indigenous religious movement that developed among the Yoruba during the 1920s. The hymn tradition that grew out of the Aladura churches has gone largely undiscussed and undocumented despite its influence on other musical genres such as the better-known popular music, juju, and the Yoruba music drama.I This essay explores the transition that took place in the Aladura move­ ment from its heavy reliance on standard Western hymns to the devel­ opment of a hymn tradition in which the texts and melody conformed to the linguistic requirements of the Yoruba language. Between 1890 and 1920 a separatist church movement gained momentum in various pockets around the African continent. Among the Yoruba in Nigeria, the African church movement, as it was also called, was particularly strong. Some of the African denomina­ tions, which separated from their European and American mission churches, are the Native Baptist Church, the United Native African Church, Bethel African Church, and Jehovah Shalom, to name a few. By 1917 fourteen African churches had sprung up throughout http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Black Sacred Music Duke University Press

In Search of an Indigenous African Hymnody: The Aladura Churches among the Yoruba

Brooks, Christopher
Black Sacred Music , Volume 8 (2) – Sep 1, 1994
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In Search of an Indigenous African Hymnody: The Aladura Churches among the Yoruba Christopher Brooks This discussion considers the effect of various Western Christian hymn traditions on the emergence of an indigenous religious movement that developed among the Yoruba during the 1920s. The hymn tradition that grew out of the Aladura churches has gone largely undiscussed and undocumented despite its influence on other musical genres such as the better-known popular music, juju, and the Yoruba music drama.I This essay explores the transition that took place in the Aladura move­ ment from its heavy reliance on standard Western hymns to the devel­ opment of a hymn tradition in which the texts and melody conformed to the linguistic requirements of the Yoruba language. Between 1890 and 1920 a separatist church movement gained momentum in various pockets around the African continent. Among the Yoruba in Nigeria, the African church movement, as it was also called, was particularly strong. Some of the African denomina­ tions, which separated from their European and American mission churches, are the Native Baptist Church, the United Native African Church, Bethel African Church, and Jehovah Shalom, to name a few. By 1917 fourteen African churches had sprung up throughout

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Published: Sep 1, 1994

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