African Percussion Ensemble Music Series


Photo Credit: Kinka Drummers in performance at Anyako,
southeastern Ghana, West Africa.

Kinka, An Anlo-Ewe Secular Dance-Drumming

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CK Ladzekpo

A Brief Background

Kinka is a popular Anlo-Ewe secular dance-drumming of recent origin (1950) and is characterized by themes reflective of the youthful inclinations for a more liberal lifestyle common among the younger generation in contemporary societies. Short repetitive metaphoric phrases are the norms of this communal entertainment. Received with a tremendous sense of humor and excitement by the younger generation, the dialogues of this idiom provoke anger, resentment and confusion among the older generation.

Drum music is an orderly sequence of pitches in time known in the Anlo-Ewe musical tradition as vugbe. Literal translation, vu = drum + gbe = language - drum language).

Kinka, An Anlo-Ewe Secular Dance-Drumming is an excerpt from a forthcoming LearningWare hypermedia interactive CD-ROM: Foundation Course In African Dance-Drumming. All Rights Reserved!

A Sample Kinka Drum Music Repertoire

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