Kinka | Dzodze Dzigbordi Drumming Group

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). Curated by Emmanuel Agbeli, hosted by Robert Levin and produced by Paul Amegashie.