My mother has a televison, does yours? : Transformation and secularization in an Ewe funeral drum tradition

Abstract

This study addresses tradition and change within the funeral music and funeral culture in the town of Dzodze located in southeastern Ghana. Dzodze is located in the heart of the southern Ewe cultural area in Ghana, an area extending approximately east to west from the Volta Lake to Aflao on the Togo boarder, and north from the coast to Avenor and Hevi. Dzodze is an autonomous duko (city/state), located to the north of the Anlo, the largest duko in the region, with whom they share many cultural features.Issue title: Performance Literature II