A Pious Poetics of Place
A Pious Poetics of Place
Chapter 4 examines the Islamic voice as a morally steeped and widely deployed discursive resource in Bamako popular music. It focuses on the inter-textual and inter-subjective references to Islamic thought and practice in three distinct, though frequently overlapping genres of vocal performance: praise song, rap, and dance band lyricism.
Keywords: Mali, Music, Ethics, Afropolitanism, African Studies, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Ethnomusicology
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