Djembe Drum Music

Yaya Diallo Interrupts the Silence


Introduction

Very often I'm asked to write articles on the subject of drum music. During my 20 years of experience as an instructor of drumming and dance in Africa, Europe, Asia, U.S.A., Canada and the Antilles I always avoided the ambiguous subjects. One day I said to
myself, "Enough, it's enough! Stop the massacre." I have my share of responsibility and guilt in the tragedy that we are living today regarding African percussion. I am going to write a series of articles with the frankness and honesty of style for which
I am known. I assure you there will be tears and grinding of teeth over some of the reading. Too bad for the lame ducks!

The following is a list of subjects to be covered:

1. Djembe and Djembefola
2. The Djembe Gangsters
3. Percussion and AIDS
4. The Drum Mafia
5. Percussion and African dance – A Deaf Dialogue
6. African Percussion and Racism
7. Miscellaneous Questions

Note: Do not count on me for a request to offer a public apology or to take back my statements. This will never happen.

To all who are listening … Greetings!

NB: Yaya Diallo's introduction to the forthcoming series of articles is translated from the original French to English by Stephen Conroy, Producer, Onzou Records, http://www.onzou.com .

Onzou Records will be making the above articles available on a site created for news, articles, and communication with Yaya Diallo at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/yaya_diallo .


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Thank you.

Stephen

Stephen Conroy, Producer/Manager
Yaya Diallo's West African Music
Onzou Records, http://www.onzou.com

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