General / Expedition Base

• Manning, Patrick. “Drums on the Move: An Exploration in Africa-Diaspora Studies.” Working paper, University of Pittsburgh, 2021. https://patrickmanningworldhistorian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/DrumsOnMove.Text_.5.pdf
• DunDun demonstration played by Ayanleke Waheed Abiodun, Courtesy of The DunDun Centre, Abepe, Nigeria.

Material Science Path

• Eke, O. I. B., et al. “Determination of the Bulk Modulus of Some Animal Skins Using Acoustical Method.” AASCIT Journal of Physics 4, no. 5 (2018): 76–80.
• AIC Conservation Wiki. “Leather and Skin.” American Institute for Conservation. https://www.conservation-wiki.com/wiki/Leather_and_Skin
• Sorensen, Knud. “Drum Head Modal Vibrations.” Student research report, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009.
  Sachs-Hornbostel Sidebar
• von Hornbostel, Erich M., and Curt Sachs. “Systematik der Musikinstrumente: Ein Versuch.” Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 46, no. 4/5 (1914): 553–590. [English translation by Anthony Baines and Klaus P. Wachsmann, Galpin Society Journal 14 (1961): 3–29.]
  Activities 2 & 3 — The Resonant Chamber / The Physics of Pitch
• Fletcher, Neville H., and Thomas D. Rossing. The Physics of Musical Instruments. 2nd ed. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1998.
• Shannon, Claude E., and Warren Weaver. The Mathematical Theory of Communication. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1949. [Source for the Encoder-Transmitter-Decoder model]

Cultural Systems Path

• Manning, Patrick. “Drums on the Move.” (See above.)
• Güldemann, Tom, et al. The Languages and Linguistics of Africa. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2018. [Niger-Congo language family divergence estimates]
  Activity 2 — The Voice of the Kingdom
• “The Origin of Fontomfrom, the Akan Talking Drum.” Modern Ghana. https://www.modernghana.com/news/1170604/the-origin-of-fontomfrom-the-akan-talking-drum.html
• Conrad, David C. Empires of Medieval West Africa: Ghana, Mali, and Songhay. New York: Facts on File, 2005.
• McCaskie, T. C. State and Society in Pre-Colonial Asante. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
  Activity 3 — Adaptation and Legacy
• Akinbo, Samuel. “The Language of Gángan, A Yorùbá Talking Drum.” Frontiers in Communication 6 (2021): 650382. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2021.650382/full
• Durojaye, Cecilia. 2020. “The Dùndún Talking Drum of the Yorùbá Community.” The Arts Journal 9 (7). https://theartsjournal.org/index.php/site/article/view/1902.
• Oluga, Samson Olasunkanmi, and Halira Abeni Litini Babalola. 2012. “Drummunication: The Trado-Indigenous Art of Communicating with Talking Drums in Yorubaland.” Global Journal of Human Social Science: Arts and Humanities 12 (11). https://www.academia.edu/24423918/.

Transformational Impact Path

• Brown, Vincent. Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020.
• Dalmas, Antoine. Histoire de la révolution de Saint-Domingue. Paris: Mame Frères, 1814. [Primary source for the Bois Caïman ceremony; composed c. 1793, published 1814.]
• Fick, Carolyn E. 1990. The Making of Haiti: The Saint-Domingue Revolution from Below. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
• James, C. L. R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. 2nd ed. New York: Vintage Books, 1989.
• Craton, Michael. Testing the Chains: Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982.
• Sherwood, Marika. 2007. “Perceptions of the Haitian Revolution in Britain, 1791–1805.” Journal of Caribbean History 41 (1–2): 49–73.
• Wilks, Ivor. Asante in the Nineteenth Century: The Structure and Evolution of a Political Order. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975.