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Bamako sounds : the Afropolitan ethics of Malian music / Ryan Thomas Skinner.

Title
Bamako sounds : the Afropolitan ethics of Malian music / Ryan Thomas Skinner.
Author
Skinner, Ryan Thomas
Publication
  • Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
  • ©2015

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Description
233 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  • Music > Moral and ethical aspects > Bamako
  • Music > Moral and ethical aspects > Mali
  • Musicians > Bamako > Social conditions
  • Ethnomusicology > Bamako
  • Group identity > Bamako
  • Group identity in the performing arts > Bamako
  • Mandingo (African people) > Bamako > Ethnic identity
  • City and town life > Bamako
  • Bamako (Mali) > Social conditions
Note
  • "A Quadrant book."
  • "Sponsored by the Quadrant Global Cultures group ... and by the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-225) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
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.
ISBN
  • 9780816693498 (hc : alk. paper)
  • 0816693498 (hc : alk. paper)
  • 9780816693504 (pb : alk. paper)
  • 0816693501 (pb : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2014025344
OCLC
  • 894746338
  • SCSB-10254711
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library