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Traditionally Nigerian juju music relied on the guitar, banjo, and ukelele. The advent of Nigerian nationalism in the mid-1960s prompted bandleader I.K. Dairo, heard in this example, to incorporate electric guitars and traditional Yoruba percussion instruments that are now central to the modern juju sound. Prominent among the percussion instruments is the “talking drum,” an hourglass-shaped pressure drum that mimics the tonal Yoruba language and “comments” on the song texts, which are based on praise songs, religious songs, and moral issue songs.
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