Introduction – Imagining the “Musical Memorial” Music and the (re)transmission of the memory of slaveries and the slave trades.

Abstract

From the time of western abolitions in the Black Atlantic (Aterianus-Owanga & Guedj 2014; Bonacci 2009; Gilroy 1993), but also in the post-slaveries societies of the Indian Ocean (Desroches & Samson 2008; Parent 2018; Servan-Schreiber 2010), the Maghreb and the Persian Gulf, music has continually been called upon as a way of facing up to the "ghostly legacy of slavery" (Rice & Kardux 2012). In the Maghreb and the Arabian Introduction -Imagining the "Musical Memorial" Music and the (re)transmissio...