Making Manding in the concert hall - Jali Pop in Paris
Ka Manding ke sumung-bungo kono - Bii jaliyaa Pari saatewo kono
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2173142 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hauke Dorsch (AMA African Music Archives /Archiv für die Musik Afrikas Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien Forum Universitatis, Mainz, Germany) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 177-193 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of African Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-6815 • E-ISSN: 1469-9346 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13696815.2017.1296351 |
| OpenAlex | W2598750337 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
This contribution looks at performances of West African musicians in the diaspora in order to find out in which way artists consciously evoke feelings of home and address issues of identity and belonging. Taking as its starting point concerts by Senegambian griots both in the 1990s and in 2015, the article shows the striking continuity of the performance of a Mande and more precisely Mandinka identity. As a contrasting example the article describes how the Senegalese pop star Baaba Maal, not a griot and not a Mandinka, performed to very different audiences in the USA, the Gambia and Germany. The paper compares how he addressed audiences at these concerts and how he addressed continental, regional, national, ethnic, local and other levels of identities. In rereading these and other concerts observed by the author in the late 1990s early 2000s and again recently, the contribution will also argue that in migrants' liminal life phase of staying abroad, concerts serve as rituals of belonging to a more or less mythical home
Aesthetics · Art · Diaspora · Ethnic group · Feeling · Identity (music · Liminality · Media studies · National identity · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Cultural Identity and Heritage · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Psychology · Gender Studies · History · Law
Ethnic groups and boundaries
Verbal art as performance
A History of African Popular Culture
Histoire des Mandingues de l’Ouest
Un/doing Differences. Die Kontingenz sozialer Zugehörigkeiten / Un/doing Differences. The Contingency of Social Belonging
Le griot mande à l'heure de la globalisation
O Kaabu e os seus vizinhos
Verbal Art as Performance1
The Making and Unmaking of Ethnic Boundaries
The 'diaspora' diaspora
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |