Title Bamako sounds : the Afropolitan ethics of Malian music / Ryan Thomas Skinner

Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource Series A Quadrant Book Quadrant Book Contents Introduction: a sense of urban Africa -- Representing Bamako -- Artistiya -- Ethics and aesthetics -- A pious poetics of place -- Money trouble -- Afropolitan patriotism -- Conclusion: an Africanist's query Summary Bamako Sounds tells the story of an African city, its people, their values, and their music. Centered on the music and musicians of Bamako, Mali's booming capital city, this book reveals a community of artists whose lives and works evince a complex world shaped by urban culture, postcolonialism, musical expression, religious identity, and intellectual property. Drawing on years of ethnographic research with classically trained players of the kora (a twenty-one-string West African harp) as well as more contemporary, hip-hop influenced musicians and producers, Ryan Thomas Skinner analyzes how Bamako artists balance social imperatives with personal interests and global imaginations. Whether performed live on stage, broadcast on the radio, or shared over the Internet, music is a privileged mode of expression that suffuses Bamako's urban soundscape. It animates professional projects, communicates cultural values, pronounces public piety, resounds in the marketplace, and quite literally performs the nation. Music, the artists who make it, and the audiences who interpret it thus represent a crucial means of articulating and disseminating the ethics and aesthetics of a varied and vital Afropolitanism, in Bamako and beyond Notes "A Quadrant book." "Sponsored by the Quadrant Global Cultures group ... and by the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Music -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Mali -- Bamako Music -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Mali Musicians -- Mali -- Bamako -- Social conditions Ethnomusicology -- Mali -- Bamako Group identity -- Mali -- Bamako Group identity in the performing arts -- Mali -- Bamako Mandingo (African people) -- Mali -- Bamako -- Ethnic identity City and town life -- Mali -- Bamako MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical. MUSIC -- Reference. MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- International. City and town life Ethnomusicology Group identity Group identity in the performing arts Music -- Moral and ethical aspects Musicians -- Social conditions Social conditions SUBJECT Bamako (Mali) -- Social conditions Subject Mali Mali -- Bamako Genre/Form Electronic book Form Electronic book ISBN 9781452944401 1452944407

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