Civil taxis and wild trucks
The dialectics of social space and subjectivity inDimanche à Bamako
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4304180 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ryan Thomas Skinner (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 17-39 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Popular Music (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-1430 • E-ISSN: 1474-0095 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0261143009990365 |
| OpenAlex | W2138359831 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 25 |
This article presents a close reading (or listening) of Amadou & Mariam's 2004 album,Dimanche à Bamako, meaning 'Sunday in Bamako', produced 'by and with' world music maverick Manu Chao. I consider howDimanche à Bamakomusically renders, through sound and lyrical expression, the tensions of 'global modernity' in postcolonial Africa and its diaspora. 'Global modernity' refers to the fraught encounter between local actors and the globalised socio-economic conditions in which modern subjects are increasingly embedded. By framing these local and global tensions in the context of a modern African city,Dimanche à Bamakooffers a theoretically sophisticated representation of urban African social space that, while rooted in a particular place (Bamako, Mali) attends to the wider world in which a local sense of place gives way to the wanderlust and anxieties of living and labouring in a globalised world. Through critical application of Lefebvrian and Mande socio-spatial theory and focused analysis of several of the album's tracks, I argue thatDimanche à Bamakoelucidates a dialectic of 'civility' and 'wildness' that shapes the way social space and subjectivity are conceived, lived, and perceived in urban African communities in an era of global modernity
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |