by zaragemca » Mon Mar 07, 2005 3:47 pm
brother Berimbau,I did see your question and I could not speak for anybody else in this subject ,but I would like to clear something, which is the rule in this subject.The category of 'Bataleros' is only given to the individuals which had gone through the right process to become one,and given the confirmation of the 'Orishas',the rest are percussionists which like to play bata,which at that point they could buy any of those sold by music comp., for musical purpose....Knowing to play some of the patterns,does n't make a person automatically a 'Batalero',in first place becouse remembering a pattern,or a musical phrase does n't mean his understanding what's going on. I have witnessed myself in ceremonies,( when I was younger), the 'Orishas' refusing to 'ok' somebody as 'Batalero', or to take the instrument from somebody for the reason which "they know'.The same thing goes for the incorporation of a 'new-Bata-drum...To Obi the percutive evolution which took place in relation to this Yoruba's pattern in Cuba was the natural process which started in Nigeria thousands of years ago,becouse we know that those drums did n't get those shaped forms in one day, neither those multi-percussion patterns were set up together in one day,everything have evolved, and the 'Orishas themselves are the one which provided to this practicioners in Cuba with the wisdom to create, the same way that it was provided in Nigeria...And their (my ancestors) did it in a harder condition than what the originators faced in Nigeria,becouse after been brought as slaves, and in a diferent environment,habitat,rule,and status,they have to recreate everything,(it is not that a blessing?)..Dr.Zaragemca
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