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The Healing Drum is more than a literary autobiography; it includes considerable ethnographic information about Minianka culture

I have been searching for an authentic, traditional CD with chanting and singing, and now I have finally found it! The Healing Drum is more than a literary autobiography; it includes considerable ethnographic information about Minianka culture Together Diallo and Hall have collaborated to produce a text that combines anthropology, sociology, philosophy and music in a potent and thought-provoking read. Part two provides examination of the more public role of music as a sacred healing practice in Minianka culture. ? This is not actually a scholarly book, but that is part of its strength: the subjects discussed in Part One, about Minianka culture as a whole, are those covered in standard ethnographic studies. ? & quot; I have been searching for an authentic, traditional CD with chanting and singing, and now I have finally found it!& quot; The Healing Drum is more than a literary autobiography; it includes considerable ethnographic information about Minianka culture This is music that hasn't had its wings clipped; music that still possesses the full potential for the sacred and the magical that it had at the beginning of the world. -- Magazine of the Place des Arts The Healing Drum is more than a literary autobiography; it includes considerable ethnographic information about Minianka culture I have been searching for an authentic, traditional CD with chanting and singing, and now I have finally found it! Part two provides examination of the more public role of music as a sacred healing practice in Minianka culture. This is not actually a scholarly book, but that is part of its strength: the subjects discussed in Part One, about Minianka culture as a whole, are those covered in standard ethnographic studies. Together Diallo and Hall have collaborated to produce a text that combines anthropology, sociology, philosophy and music in a potent and thought-provoking read. This is not actually a scholarly book, but that is part of its strength: the subjects discussed in Part One, about Minianka culture as a whole, are those covered in standard ethnographic studies. ? The Healing Drum is more than a literary autobiography; it includes considerable ethnographic information about Minianka culture Together Diallo and Hall have collaborated to produce a text that combines anthropology, sociology, philosophy and music in a potent and thought-provoking read. Part two provides examination of the more public role of music as a sacred healing practice in Minianka culture. ? & quot; This is not actually a scholarly book, but that is part of its strength: the subjects discussed in Part One, about Minianka culture as a whole, are those covered in standard ethnographic studies.& quot; ? & quot; The Healing Drum is more than a literary autobiography; it includes considerable ethnographic information about Minianka culture& quot; & quot; Together Diallo and Hall have collaborated to produce a text that combines anthropology, sociology, philosophy and music in a potent and thought-provoking read.& quot; & quot; Part two provides examination of the more public role of music as a sacred healing practice in Minianka culture.& quot; ?

This is not actually a scholarly book, but that is part of its strength: the subjects discussed in Part One, about Minianka culture as a whole, are those covered in standard ethnographic studies.

I have been searching for an authentic, traditional CD with chanting and singing, and now I have finally found it! --Body Mind Spirit Magazine, October 2003

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Born and raised in Mali, West Africa into the Minianka (Bamana) tribe, Yaya Diallo learned to play balafon and hand drums under the instruction of his grandfather and spiritual mentor, Nangape.

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