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Jeliya at the crossroads : learning African wisdom through an embodied practice
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ISBN: 3030830594 3030830586 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan,


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Mande studies.
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ISSN: 23795506 Year: 1999 Publisher: Madison, WI : Bloomington, IN : African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin, Indiana University Press


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A bird dance near Saturday City
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ISBN: 9780253351487 0253351480 9780253219848 0253219841 1281958700 0253000416 9786611958701 9780253000415 6611958703 9781281958709 Year: 2008 Publisher: Bloomington [Ind.] Indiana University Press

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In A Bird Dance Near Saturday City, Patrick McNaughton carefully considers the components of a bird dance masquerade, its pace, the performers, and what the entire experience means for understandings of Bamana and West African aesthetics and culture.


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L'Histoire des Bandjougousi d'après Djèmory Kouyaté de Nyagassola (Guinée)
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ISBN: 9789004446892 9789004463042 Year: 2021 Publisher: Leiden; Boston : BRILL

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Ce volume présente un récit oral par le griot célébré Djèmory Kouyaté de Nyagassola (actuelle Guinée). Il traite de la façon dont on se souvient de l'époque qui relie la fondation de la société mandingue par Soundiata jusqu'à aujourd'hui. Les récits oraux sur cette époque sont rares car ils exigent du narrateur une compréhension avancée de l'histoire régionale et des relations entre les lignées dirigeantes concurrentes. Le griot célébré, Djèmory Kouyaté (décédé en 2019), a réalisé ce récit à Naréna (Mali actuel), offrant ainsi un aperçu unique des stratégies de narration et des compétences diplomatiques des griots, car le récit de Djèmory peut être comparé à certains de ses enregistrements antérieurs réalisés à Nyagassola, une ville gouvernée par une lignée rivale des Bandjougousi de Naréna. L'Histoire des Bandjougousi est donc une source importante d'historiographie ouest-africaine. This volume features an oral account by the acclaimed griot Djèmory Kouyaté from Nyagassola (present-day Guinée). It deals with the way the era that bridges the foundation of their society by Sunjata to their present-day society, called Manding, is remembered. Oral accounts on this era are rare as they demand from the narrator an advanced understanding of regional history and the relationships between competing ruling lineages. The acclaimed griot Djèmory Kouyaté (d. 2019) performed this account in Naréna (present-day Mali), thus offering a unique insight into griots' storytelling strategies and diplomatic skills, because Djèmory's account can be compared with earlier recordings of him made in Nyagassola, a town ruled by a rival lineage to the Bandjougousi from Naréna. L'Histoire des Bandjougousi is therefore an important source for West African historiography.


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The best hand is the hand that always gives : griottes and their profession in Eastern Gambia
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ISBN: 9057890801 Year: 2002 Publisher: Leiden University

Mande music : traditional and modern music of the Maninka and Mandinka of Western Africa
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ISBN: 0226101622 9780226101620 0226101614 Year: 2000 Publisher: Chicago The University of Chicago Press

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With Mande Music, Eric Charry offers the most comprehensive source available on one of Africa’s richest and most sophisticated music cultures. Using resources as disparate as early Arabic travel accounts, oral histories, and archival research as well as his own extensive studies in Mali, Guinea, Senegal, and the Gambia, Charry traces this music culture from its origins in the thirteenth-century Mali empire to the recording studios of Paris and New York. He focuses on the four major spheres of Mande music—hunter’s music, music of the jelis or griots, jembe and other drumming, and guitar-based modern music—exploring how each evolved, the types of instruments used, the major artists, and how each sphere relates to the others. With its maps, illustrations, and musical transcriptions as well as an exhaustive bibliography, discography, and videography, this book is essential reading for those seeking an in-depth look at one of the most exciting, innovative, and deep-rooted phenomena on the world music scene. A compact disc is available separately.

Performing Africa
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ISBN: 0691074895 0691074887 9786612158544 1282158546 1400825210 9781400825219 9780691074887 9780691074894 Year: 2009 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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The jali--a member of a hereditary group of Mandinka professional performers--is a charismatic but contradictory figure. He is at once the repository of his people's history, the voice of contemporary political authority, the inspiration for African American dreams of an African homeland, and the chief entertainment for the burgeoning transnational tourist industry. Numerous journalists, scholars, politicians, and culture aficionados have tried to pin him down. This book shows how the jali's talents at performance make him a genius at representation--the ideal figure to tell us about the "Africa" that the world imagines, which is always a thing of illusion, magic, and contradiction. Africa often enters the global imagination through news accounts of ethnic war, famine, and despotic political regimes. Those interested in countering such dystopic images--be they cultural nationalists in the African diaspora or connoisseurs of "global culture"--often found their representations of an emancipatory Africa on an enthusiasm for West African popular culture and performance arts. Based on extensive field research in The Gambia and focusing on the figure of the jali, Performing Africa interrogates these representations together with their cultural and political implications. It explores how Africa is produced, circulated, and consumed through performance and how encounters through performance create the place of Africa in the world. Innovative and discerning, Performing Africa is a provocative contribution to debates over cultural nationalism and the construction of identity and history in Africa and elsewhere.

Status and identity in West Africa
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ISBN: 1282075640 9786612075643 0253112648 0585231893 9780585231891 0253314097 0253209293 9780253314093 9780253209290 9781282075641 6612075643 9780253112644 Year: 1995 Publisher: Bloomington, Ind. Indiana University Press

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