{"id":178,"date":"2016-07-13T19:24:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T19:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/?p=178"},"modified":"2016-11-02T20:00:54","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T20:00:54","slug":"atumpan-video-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/uncategorized\/atumpan-video-selection\/","title":{"rendered":"Atumpan Video Selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Video Selection:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The video clip included here shows Reginald Mensah, one of the most active and knowledgeable drummers in Anomabu, at the chief&#8217;s palace drumming praises and other texts as part of the chief&#8217;s funeral rites. The drums are facing toward the palace where the chief&#8217;s body lays in state. I was unable to procure a spoken version of the texts that were drummed in this clip.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 320px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-178-1\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Atumpan1.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Atumpan1.mp4\">http:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Atumpan1.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Performance Forces:<\/strong><\/p>\n<table class=\"BodyText\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td width=\"81\"><em>atumpan<\/em><\/td>\n<td>a pair of large single-headed, goblet-shaped tubular drums struck with a pair of L-shaped beaters by a single drummer; speech-surrogate instrument<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/uncategorized\/atumpan\/\">&lt;&lt;<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/uncategorized\/aben\/\">&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video Selection: The video clip included here shows Reginald Mensah, one of the most active and knowledgeable drummers in Anomabu, at the chief&#8217;s palace drumming praises and other texts as part of the chief&#8217;s funeral rites. The drums are facing toward the palace where the chief&#8217;s body lays in state. I was unable to procure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/uncategorized\/atumpan-video-selection\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Atumpan Video Selection&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}