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Kpegisu

Ewe · Ewe / Volta Region, Ghana · Music/Dance

An Ewe war drum and drumming tradition, the subject of David Locke's study with Godwin Agbeli, Kpegisu: A War Drum of the Ewe (1992). That work analyses its songs and drum patterns and presents it as one of the oldest living oral traditions of the region.

Locke and Agbeli's study of Kpegisu analyses its songs and drum patterns.

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