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African Ethnomusicologist
About Daniela Vandervoort
In 2017, Daniela Vandervoort spent 11 months living in a rural Yoruba compound near Iseyin, not as an observer but as a drum apprentice, learning the tonal grammar of the dundun ensemble by call-and-response with elders who refused written notation. Her breakthrough came when she documented how women’s akomode singing in Edo communities functions as oral land-title registry, embedding lineage and boundary disputes in melodic contour and rhythmic phrasing. She later co-designed the 'Oriki Mapping Project', a digital archive that cross-references praise poetry with GPS-tagged ancestral sites across southwestern Nigeria. Unlike scholars who treat music as artifact, Daniela treats it as active civic infrastructure, tracking how youth-led Afrobeat remixes in Lagos reinterpret traditional atenteben flute motifs to negotiate housing rights in informal settlements. Her fieldwork rejects extractive recording; every audio file she publishes includes consent-based metadata on who authorized its use, for what purpose, and under which kinship obligation.
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