Heritage and Transformation of an African Popular Music

Modern popular music is closely linked to the 'traditional' heritage - intangible and material - of which artist-musicians have, in a way, usufruct. This Element examines the relationship between (cultural) heritage and the transformation of popular music in Côte d'Ivoire. It views heritage from a dynamic and innovative perspective as a constantly evolving reality, informed by a multitude of encounters, both local and global. It frees itself from the sectoralization and disciplinary impermeability of the sector - in places of music performance to understand how the artistic-musical heritage is transmitted, imagined and managed and the complex process of transformation of popular music in which it registers. It appears that heritage, far from being frozen in time, is rather activated, deactivated and reactivated according to the creative imagination. In addition, the work highlights a minor aspect of the heritage subsumed in popular intellectuality at work in popular music.

Product details

• Authors: Aghi Bahi, Aghi (Universite Felix Houphouet-Boigny) Bahi
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.12.2024
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)
• EAN: 9781009469166
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0946916-6
• Pages: 84
• Series: Elements in Critical Heritage Studies
• Subjects: Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, Sociology: customs & traditions, ART / Museum Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions, Popular Music, Cultural studies: customs and traditions, Music: styles & genres, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Ivory Coast