| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 244 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-235) and index. |
| Contents |
Where and when I enter -- Performing Africa -- pt. 1 Representations/performances. -- Music: Europe and Africa -- Performances -- pt. 2 Professional dreams. -- Curators of tradition -- Personalistic economy -- Interview encounters: the performance of profession -- pt. 3 Culture as commodity. -- Travel stories -- Tourists as pilgrims. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Griots -- Gambia -- Music -- History and criticism.
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Griots. |
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Gambia. |
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Music. |
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Mandingo (African people) -- Gambia -- Music -- History and criticism.
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Mandingo (African people) |
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Music -- Gambia -- History and criticism.
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Gambia -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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Folklore -- Performance -- Gambia.
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Folklore -- Performance. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Music.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ebron, Paulla A., 1953- Performing Africa. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2002 0691074887 9780691074887 (DLC) 2001055408 (OCoLC)49326408 |
| ISBN |
9781400825219 (electronic book) |
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1400825210 (electronic book) |
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9780691074887 (alkaline paper) |
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0691074887 (alkaline paper) |
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9780691074894 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0691074895 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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