1. Continental riffs: praisesingers in transnational contexts.
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Ebron, Paulla A.
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LANGUAGE & languages , *COMMUNICATION & society , *MOBILE businesses , *INTERNATIONAL markets , *GLOBALIZATION , *INTERNATIONAL relations - Abstract
Africa often comes to the attention of international audiences through the circulation of various musical traditions. Music is often configured as a universal language thus erasing the specific projects of performers, audiences, and the music industry in constituting the meaning of a given musical form. This erasure leaves music as just an empty sign of globalization. Using the concepts 'imagined communities' and 'structures of feeling', the aim of this essay is to address the ways different constituencies bring overlapping and divergent agendas to the production, circulations and reception of the music of Mande praisesingers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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