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 Cãote d'Ivoire"--

List of contents

1. Popular music in the colony; 2. The development of (and by) popular music; 3. The musicscape of the multiparty years; 4. Poetics of musical art in Abidjan; 5. Tribality and network logic; 6. Music creation and technology; 7. Professionalisation or the search for 'gombos'?; 8. Between entertainment and popular intellectuality.

Product details

• Authors: Aghi Bahi, Aghi (Universite Felix Houphouet-Boigny) Bahi
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2024
• EAN: 9781009469180
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0946918-0
• No. of pages: 84
• Series: Elements in Critical Heritage Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); 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