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Music as cultural text = performance traditions in West Africa and its diasporas /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Music as cultural text/ edited by Babacar M'Baye ... [et al.].
Reminder of title:	performance traditions in West Africa and its diasporas /
other author:	M'Baye, Babacar.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland : : 2025.,
Description:	xiii, 315 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
[NT 15003449]:	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.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Music - Social aspects - Africa, West. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-85276-3
ISBN:	9783031852763

Music as cultural text = performance traditions in West Africa and its diasporas /
Music as cultural textperformance traditions in West Africa and its diasporas /[electronic resource] :edited by Babacar M'Baye ... [et al.]. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025. - xiii, 315 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

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.

African music's most distinctive feature is the urbatextuality that transpires through its diversity and plural functions and the specific geographical, cultural, religious, linguistic, political, economic, and social contexts from which it evolves. This music and its circum-Atlantic offspring are characterized by wisdom, subtlety, resilience, and creativity. They are cultural texts marked by an openness to other customs and societies since they maintain authenticity that does not foreclose hybridity, cosmopolitanism, and other global human sensibilities. These elements have made West African music a transnational commodity and a source of inspiration and survival both on the continent and in the black diaspora. Such patterns characterize Pan-African musical traditions that thrive in several spaces where both plurality and authenticity are welcome. These characteristics are apparent in rich, complex, and vibrant musical cultures such as rap in Senegal, France, and Burkina Faso, Malian traditional music in Canada and France, hip-life and hip-hop in Ghana, Christian songs in Ghana and Nigeria, and ngoyaan, Cape Verdean cabo, and zouk in Senegal. African music's distinctive features are also noticeable in Niger's guitar-playing traditions and Tuareg oral poetry as well as in Senegambian blues that influenced their African American offspring whose imprints they bear. By exploring all these elements, the chapters in this book pay homage to the heterogeneity, memories, hope, pain, and humanity in the music of Africa and the black diaspora. Babacar M'Baye is Professor of English at Kent State University, USA. Fallou Ngom is Professor of Anthropology at Boston University, USA. Khadimou Rassoul Thiam is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Université Gaston Berger, Senegal. Alioune Willane is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Université Gaston Berger, Senegal.

ISBN: 9783031852763

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-85276-3doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

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Music
--Social aspects--Africa, West.

LC Class. No.: ML3917.A358

Dewey Class. No.: 306.48420966

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