The Akan Drum is a drum that was made in West Africa and was later found in the Colony of Virginia in North America. It is now one of the oldest African-American objects in the British Museum and possibly one of the oldest surviving anywhere. [2]

Dec 6, 2018 · The power of an instrument like the Akan Drum to communicate and unify persisted from Africa to North America. The drum became a double edged sword which slavers used to subjugate slaves and slaves used to rebel against the system of subjugation.

The Akan drum was discussed by Neil McGregor in his BBC’s History of the World in a 100 Objects. It was placed in the context of forced migration and music produced by enslaved people. It is described as being part of a chief’s court’s music production, with the assumption that it was taken on a slave ship, but not by a slave.

Oct 8, 2022 · Fashioned in Ghana in the 1700’s, the Akan Drum is one of the oldest surviving African object in the British Museum. The Akan drum as it is called, was made in the Akan region in Ghana, West Africa, where it would have been played during religious ceremonies and on social occasions.

Oct 5, 2010 · Drums were enormously potent objects in African-American worlds in the era of the slave trade. They were used on the middle passage in forcing Africans to exercise, preserving them for slave...

Drum (Apentemma) goblet shaped open drum with a hollow pedestal, the main body made of wood (Cordia africana), with six wood pegs (Baphia nitida), a skin head (deer or antelope?) and cord made of two main vegetable fibres (Clappertonia ficfolia and Raphia) - among others - which is around the head of the drum and attached to the pegs; there is ...

Within the context of royal instruments, who would play the Akan drum (atumpan)? Among the Akan, there is a variety of drums that are used in chiefs’ palaces, and the music that is played vary greatly too.

Akan drum (made early eighteenth century). Made in West Africa, found in Virginia, USA. We think of jazz as the music of joyous rebellion and cool, the syncopated swing of an...

Oct 4, 2010 · Drums were enormously potent objects in African-American worlds in the era of the slave trade. They were used on the middle passage in forcing Africans to exercise, preserving them for slave...

Sir Hans Sloane entered the drum in his catalogue as a 'drum made of a hollowed tree carved the top being brac'd wt. peggs & thongs wt. the bottom hollow from Virginia'. It is one of the...