Performing Africa
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Performing Africa
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The work Performing Africa represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
- Label
- Performing Africa
- Statement of responsibility
- Paulla A. Ebron
- Subject
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- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- Etnomusicologie
- Folklore -- Interprétation -- Gambie
- Folklore -- Performance
- Folklore -- Performance -- Gambia
- Gambia
- Gambia -- Social life and customs
- Gambie -- Mœurs et coutumes
- Griots
- Griots -- Gambia -- Music | History and criticism
- Griots -- Gambie -- Musique -- Histoire et critique
- MUSIC -- Ethnic
- MUSIC -- Genres & Styles | Folk & Traditional
- Mandingo (African people)
- Mandingo (African people) -- Gambia -- Music | History and criticism
- Mandingo (African people) -- Music
- Mandingue (Peuple d'Afrique) -- Gambie -- Musique -- Histoire et critique
- Manners and customs
- Music
- Music
- Music -- Gambia -- History and criticism
- Musique -- Gambie -- Histoire et critique
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | General
- Beïnvloeding
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The jali--a member of a hereditary group of Mandinka professional performers--is a charismatic but contradictory figure. He is at once the repository of his people's history, the voice of contemporary political authority, the inspiration for African American dreams of an African homeland, and the chief entertainment for the burgeoning transnational tourist industry. Numerous journalists, scholars, politicians, and culture aficionados have tried to pin him down. This book shows how the jali's talents at performance make him a genius at representation--the ideal figure to tell us about the "Africa" that the world imagines, which is always a thing of illusion, magic, and contradiction
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- Dewey number
- 781.62/96345
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- English
- LC call number
- ML3760
- LC item number
- .E27 2002eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
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