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Music as cultural text : performance traditions in West Africa and its diasporas / Babacar M'Baye, Fallou Ngom, Khadimou Rassoul Thiam, Alioune Willane, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Social aspects--Africa, West.
- Music.
- Music and transnationalism--Africa, West.
- Music and transnationalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 315 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2025]
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Black Music in Contexts: Africa and the New Black Diasporas
- PART I: The Healing, Spiritual, Social, and Cultural Functions of African Music. 2. Between the Sacred and the Profane: Popular Music and the Dissemination and Policing of Islamic Knowledge in Senegal
- 3. Religious Songs and Nation-building in Postcolonial Ghana
- 4. Proverbs as Verbal Art Forms in Ghanaian Hiplife Songs
- PART II: Gender, Power, and Politics in African Music
- 5. Gendered Concerns: Subversion of Patriarchal Order and Women's Empowerment in Ngoyaan Songs
- 6. Playing with Class: Honor, Griotisme, and Professional Artists in the Tuareg Music Economy
- 7. The Past's Haunting of the Present: Musical Memorializations of Patrice Lumumba and Thomas Sankara in West African Popular Culture
- PART III: Cosmopolitan and Transnational Features of African Music
- 8. In Search of Mahalia Jackson and Aminata Fall: A Comparative Study of Senegalese and African American Blues
- 9. From Zouk Lovers and Cabo Lovers to Mais Kizomba: Youth, Music, and Change in Urban Dakar, Senegal
- 10. Balafon Without Borders: The Case of Adamou Daou
- 11. "I am Only an African!": The Image of West Africa in the Music of Afro-French Hip-Hop Collective Sexion d'Assaut.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 6, 2025).
- ISBN:
- 9783031852763
- 3031852761
- Publisher Number:
- 90102103808
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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