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Author Goodman, Jane E., 1956-

Title Berber culture on the world stage : from village to video / Jane E. Goodman.

Publication Info. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 239 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-232) and index.
Contents Circuits -- The Berber Spring -- Refracting Berber identities -- The mythical village -- Texts -- Collecting poems -- Authoring modernity -- Copyright matters -- Performances -- Staging gender -- Village to video.
Summary "[S]ure to interest a number of different audiences, from language and music scholars to specialists on North Africa ... a superb book, clearly written, analytically incisive, about very important issues that have not been described elsewhere."--John Bowen, Washington University In this nuanced study of the performance of cultural identity, Jane E. Goodman travels from contemporary Kabyle Berber communities in Algeria and France to the colonial archives, identifying the products, performances, and media through which Berber identity has developed. In the 1990s, with a major Islamist insurgency underway in Algeria, Berber cultural associations created performance forms that challenged Islamist premises while critiquing their own village practices. Goodman describes the phenomenon of new Kabyle song, a form of world music that transformed village songs for global audiences. She follows new songs as they move from their producers to the copyright agency to the Parisian stage, highlighting the networks of circulation and exchange through which Berbers have achieved global visibility.
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Subject Berbers -- Algeria.
Berbers.
Algeria.
Algeria -- Ethnic relations.
Ethnic relations.
Algerians -- France -- History.
Algerians.
France.
History.
Music -- Performance -- Algeria.
Music -- Performance.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Goodman, Jane E., 1956- Berber culture on the world stage. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2005 0253346290 0253217849 (DLC) 2005006229 (OCoLC)58051138
ISBN 0253111455 (electronic book)
9780253111456 (electronic book)
9780253346292
0253346290
9780253217844 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0253217849 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0253346290 (alkaline paper)
0253217849 (paperback ; alkaline paper)