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Bamako sounds : the Afropolitan ethics of Malian music
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- Creator
- Ryan Thomas Skinner
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
- Physical Details
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- 233 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780816693498, 0816693501, 0816693498, 9780816693504, 1452944407, 9781452944401
- OCLC
- ocn909028296, ocn894746338
- "A Quadrant book."
- "Sponsored by the Quadrant Global Cultures group ... and by the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: a sense of urban Africa -- Representing Bamako -- Artistiya -- Ethics and aesthetics -- A pious poetics of place -- Money trouble -- Afropolitan patriotism -- Conclusion: an Africanist's query
Subjects
- Music -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Mali -- Bamako.
- Music -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Mali.
- Musicians -- Mali -- Bamako -- Social conditions.
- Ethnomusicology -- Mali -- Bamako.
- Group identity -- Mali -- Bamako.
- Group identity in the performing arts -- Mali -- Bamako.
- Mandingo (African people) -- Mali -- Bamako -- Ethnic identity.
- City and town life -- Mali -- Bamako.
- Bamako (Mali) -- Social conditions.