LEADER 05130nam 22006015 450 001 9911007351603321 005 20250527130242.0 010 $a3-031-85276-1 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-85276-3 035 $a(CKB)39124444400041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-85276-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32131919 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32131919 035 $a(EXLCZ)9939124444400041 100 $a20250527d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMusic as Cultural Text $ePerformance Traditions in West Africa and its Diasporas /$fedited by Babacar M'Baye, Fallou Ngom, Khadimou Rassoul Thiam, Alioune Willane 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (XIII, 315 p. 9 illus.) 311 08$a3-031-85275-3 327 $a1. 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. 330 $aAfrican 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. 606 $aPopular music 606 $aEthnology$zAfrica 606 $aCulture 606 $aAfrican languages 606 $aPopular Music 606 $aAfrican Culture 606 $aAfrican Languages 615 0$aPopular music. 615 0$aEthnology 615 0$aCulture. 615 0$aAfrican languages. 615 14$aPopular Music. 615 24$aAfrican Culture. 615 24$aAfrican Languages. 676 $a781.63 702 $aM'Baye$b Babacar$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aNgom$b Fallou$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aThiam$b Khadimou Rassoul$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aWillane$b Alioune$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911007351603321 996 $aMusic as Cultural Text$94389700 997 $aUNINA