Rhythm-Speech Correlations in a Corpus of Senegalese Drum Language

In some African cultures, drumming is used for expressing linguistic meanings. Our research focuses on Senegalese musical traditions of encoding linguistic messages on the sabar drums. Senegalese drummers have the practice of playing drums in correlation to speech. We consider rhythms and their ling...

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Main Author: Sofiya Ros
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Communication
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2021.643683/full