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L’ouvrage de Chloe Buire, chercheuse au Centre Les Afriques dans le monde (Lam) de Sciences Po Bordeaux, est issu d’une these en geographie soutenue a l’Universite Paris Nanterre en 2011. Il complete une vaste litterature consacree au Cap, la « ville mere » de l’Afrique du Sud, notamment les travaux de Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch. Toutefois, bien qu’elle retrace succinctement l’histoire de son developpement urbain et decrive en detail les transformations administratives et politiques qui ont su...

Destinee en priorite a un lectorat anglophone, cette collection d’essais rassembles par Gerome Guibert, maitre de conferences en sociologie a l’universite Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III (UFR Arts & Medias, departement ICM) et Catherine Rudent, maitre de conferences HDR a Paris IV Sorbonne (UFR de musique et musicologie), captivera au moins autant les francophones qui s’interessent aux musiques qualifiees de « populaires ». Les deux directeurs ont ete, depuis les annees 1990-2000, les chevilles...

F or the past twenty years, studies of music have used more and more frequently the notion of identity. Yet the meanings given to “ identity ” in these studies, and the functions ascribed to it, have not always been precisely defined. This paper tries to clarify the relationship between music and identity configurations. Based on studies dealing with the theory of identity and with musical iden- tities, it suggests that the social significations of music – identitarian significations included – must be understood as resulting from the intertwining of production, reception and the musical object itself. Music is not a language, but a symbolical system whose interpretants are infinite, it can consequently generate many diverse interpreta- tions, which vary according to situations and stakes, and it needs to be specifically fashioned to be put to political uses.