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Title:

Women's songs from West Africa / edited by Thomas A. Hale and Aissata G. Sidikou.

Publisher:

Indiana University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

341 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Music--Africa, West--History and criticism.
Women musicians--Africa, West.
West Africans--Music.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Music.
Music--Instruction and study.
West Africans.
Women musicians.
Africa, West.
Music / Africa, West / History and criticism.
West Africans / Music.
Women musicians / Africa, West.

Other Authors:

Hale, Thomas A. (Thomas Albert), 1942- editor.
Sidikou, A©ssata G., editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Income strategies of a jelimuso in Mali and France / Nienke Muurling. Wolof women break the taboo of sex through songs / Marame Gueye -- Jola kanyalen songs from the Casamance, Senegal : from "tradition" to globalization / Kirsten Langeveld -- Azna deities in the songs of Taguimba Bouzou : a window on the visible and invisible / Boub©♭ Nama©wa -- Initiation and funeral songs from the Guro of C©þte d'Ivoire / Ariane Deluz -- Praises performances by jalimusolu in the Gambia / Marloes Janson -- Saharan music : about a feminine modernity / Aline Tauzin -- Songs by Wolof women / Luciana Penna-Diaw -- A heroic performance by Siramori Diabat©♭ in Mali / Brahima Camara and Jan Jansen -- Women's tattooing songs from Kajoor, Senegal / George Joseph -- Drummed poems by Songhay-Zarma women of Niger / Fatima Mounka©la -- Space, language, and identity in the palm tree / Aissata G. Sidikou -- Bambara women's songs in southern Mali / Bah Diakit©♭ -- Patriarchy in songs and poetry by Zarma women / Aissata Niandou -- Muslim Hausa women's songs / Beverly B. Mack -- Lamentation and politics in the Sahelian song / Thomas A. Hale -- Transformations in Tuareg tende singing : women's voices and local feminisms / Susan J. Rasmussen -- Income strategies of a jelimuso in Mali and France / Nienke Muurling.

Series:

African expressive cultures

ISBN:

9780253010216
0253010217
0253010179 (cloth : alkaline paper)
9780253010179 (cloth : alkaline paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)812509003

LCCN:

2013012262

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)