Music as Cultural Text
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Music as Cultural Text

Performance Traditions in West Africa and its Diasporas

Herausgegeben: M'Baye, Babacar; Ngom, Fallou; Thiam, Khadimou Rassoul; Willane, Alioune
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African music s most distinctive feature is the urbatextuality that transpires through its diversity and plural functions and the specific geographical, cultural, religious, linguistic, political, economic, and social contexts from which it evolves. This music and its circum-Atlantic offspring are characterized by wisdom, subtlety, resilience, and creativity. They are cultural texts marked by an openness to other customs and societies since they maintain authenticity that does not foreclose hybridity, cosmopolitanism, and other global human sensibilities. These elements have made West African ...