Mande Music: Traditional and Modern Music of the Maninka and Mandinka of Western Africa

Knight, Roderic; Charry, Eric; Eyre, Banning

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“…The repertoire becomes a truly valuable art form because of the singers who perform them. Géwël singers are members of the Wolof musician‐orator caste that exists in many West African societies (Charry, 2000; Hale, 1998; Hoffman, 1995; Jansen, 2000), whose social and professional fortunes were redefined in the years following independence from colonial rule. Historically, géwël relied on noble patrons to provide for them, and in return they would sing praise poetry— taag— and provide guidance and mentorship in various public and private affairs (Irvine, 1978; Janson, 2002; Keïta, 2008).…”

Section: Praise Songs—historical Continuity In the National Arenamentioning

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Sunu Coosan: Creating “our tradition” in Senegalese wrestling songs

Brody

2023

J Linguistic Anthropol

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This article explores the term “sunu coosan” as a Senegalese trope of self‐articulation and as a semiotic strategy in contemporary discourses surrounding nationhood. The term, meaning "our tradition" in Wolof, is used by professionals as well as lay people in their promotion of the national sport, Làmb wrestling. By examining this phrase within the broad repertoire of Senegalese wrestling songs, I show that the musical commentary performed in the sport of Làmb situates it within a narrative of traditional continuity, subsequently producing a modern tradition for the consumption of the Senegalese nation. I argue that this collection of songs is a performative embodiment of a modern state's struggle to form its national identity. In Senegal's national wrestling arenas, ongoing lyrical engagement with the themes of history, heritage, and morality in genre‐specific, stylized formats, makes these songs the site of both ‘traditional discourse’ and a ‘discourse about tradition’. In this article, I explore three central features of Làmb songs: the use of poetic personas; "out of time narration"; and the recitation of praise poetry. By implementing these stylistic techniques inside and outside of the arena, local musicians continually create a meta‐discourse about the meaning of tradition.

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Section: Praise Songs—historical Continuity In the National Arenamentioning

confidence: 99%

Sunu Coosan: Creating “our tradition” in Senegalese wrestling songs

Brody

2023

J Linguistic Anthropol

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“…We conceptualize Mande drumming music as a constellation of performance practices initially emerging among people living in and near the region of West Africa historically associated with the Mali Empire. This includes people identifying with or as part of a variety of ethnicities, nations, and linguistic subgroups (Charry 2000). While we restrict ourselves here to drumming music, we have found that the model described can be useful for understanding other instrumental and vocal musics, including contemporary popular song emerging from this region and its diasporas.…”

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“…Especially relevant in our analyses are djembes and dunduns. For more extensive discussion of these instruments and their developments, see Charry 2000 andPolak 2000. [1.8] To our knowledge, no indigenous Mande terminology exists that directly identifies metric modes as we define them below.…”

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Metric Modes and Fluid Meter in Mande Drumming Music

Morford,

David

2023

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This article proposes a model that unites a broad range of performances of Mande drumming music within a single cohesive and fluid sub-beat metric framework. The framework categorizes musical performance in terms of two metric modes, each of which includes a set of metric cycles featuring non-isochronous pulsations. A novel feature of the proposed model that distinguishes it from previous research is that it frames metric non-isochrony in terms of the ranges for pulsation positions within a pulsation cycle. This approach is shown to be especially useful for analyzing and describing mechanisms of metrical change and transformation and for connecting seemingly distinct phenomena and repertoire.

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“…Os griots, contadores de histórias tradicionais da África Ocidental, desempenham um papel crucial na preservação da história e cultura de seus povos, com origens que remontam aos tempos pré-coloniais (HALE, 1998). Também conhecidos como jalis, esses artistas são responsáveis por transmitir a história oral, lendas, mitos e tradições de suas comunidades, bem como preservar a genealogia de suas famílias (CHARRY, 2000).…”

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O RAP de formação: uma abordagem do narrador em Mano Brown

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In this work, we will deal with the definition of the concept of formative Rap based on a selection of lyrics by the rapper Pedro Paulo Soares Pereira, Mano Brown, a selection focused on the lyrics where he is the narrator and also projects himself as an enunciator. From this clipping, we will understand the work from a chronological/temporal bias and understanding the formation process that occurs in the life of the composer during the writing process of his work, starting with the phase where he is a child in the narration, passing through adolescence and into adulthood, along the way we follow Brown's psychological, social, intellectual and political transformation.

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Mande Music: Traditional and Modern Music of the Maninka and Mandinka of Western Africa

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Sunu Coosan: Creating “our tradition” in Senegalese wrestling songs

Sunu Coosan: Creating “our tradition” in Senegalese wrestling songs

Metric Modes and Fluid Meter in Mande Drumming Music

O RAP de formação: uma abordagem do narrador em Mano Brown

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