The role of neo-traditional Yoruba music

Waterman:

The role of neo-traditional music in enacting and disseminating a hegemonic Yoruba identity is grounded in the iconic representation of social relationships as sonic relationships.

Following Geertz, I would suggest that patterns of Yoruba popular performance are not merely "reflections of a pre-existing sensibility analogically represented; they are positive agents in the creation and maintenance of such a sensibility"