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To the endless questions, theoretical statements, and hypotheses about how Black poets transcribe jazz into the poetic format, this book, while providing a different approach to reading jazz poetry, attempts to answer the question, why do Black poets revert to jazz for poetic material. This book's answer is because jazz is Black History ritualized and performed, and jazz performance is storytelling.
American poetry --- Jazz in literature. --- Griots. --- African Americans --- English language --- Historians --- Storytellers --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life --- Rhythm. --- Metrics and rhythmics --- Versification --- History and criticism --- Jazz in literature --- Griots --- 20th century --- Rhythm --- Hughes, Langston --- Sanchez, Sonia --- Henderson, David --- Baraka, Imamu Amiri --- Criticism and interpretation --- Germanic languages
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Professor Pointer is the first person to offer an English translation of the Epic of Kambili, an African heroic myth. The book is careful to point out that this text deserves to be read by myth scholars and shows that the literary tradition of epic myth-telling extends to Africa through its oral folklore. The author argues that the story should be treated as an epic myth that was pieced together by different authors over several centuries, which may or may not have been the result of observing real events. It may have been an imaginative narrative representing cultural norms with verbal symbol
Epic poetry, African. --- Epic poetry, Mandingo. --- Griots -- Africa, West. --- Heroes -- Mythology -- Africa, West. --- Mandingo poetry -- Translations into English. --- Oral tradition -- Africa, West. --- Epic poetry, Mandingo --- Epic poetry, African --- Mandingo poetry --- Oral tradition --- Griots --- Heroes --- Languages & Literatures --- African Languages & Literatures --- Heroism --- Persons --- Antiheroes --- Apotheosis --- Courage --- Historians --- Storytellers --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Folklore --- Oral history --- Mandingo literature --- African epic poetry --- African poetry --- Mandingo epic poetry --- Mythology
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The jali--a member of a hereditary group of Mandinka professional performers--is a charismatic but contradictory figure. He is at once the repository of his people's history, the voice of contemporary political authority, the inspiration for African American dreams of an African homeland, and the chief entertainment for the burgeoning transnational tourist industry. Numerous journalists, scholars, politicians, and culture aficionados have tried to pin him down. This book shows how the jali's talents at performance make him a genius at representation--the ideal figure to tell us about the "Africa" that the world imagines, which is always a thing of illusion, magic, and contradiction. Africa often enters the global imagination through news accounts of ethnic war, famine, and despotic political regimes. Those interested in countering such dystopic images--be they cultural nationalists in the African diaspora or connoisseurs of "global culture"--often found their representations of an emancipatory Africa on an enthusiasm for West African popular culture and performance arts. Based on extensive field research in The Gambia and focusing on the figure of the jali, Performing Africa interrogates these representations together with their cultural and political implications. It explores how Africa is produced, circulated, and consumed through performance and how encounters through performance create the place of Africa in the world. Innovative and discerning, Performing Africa is a provocative contribution to debates over cultural nationalism and the construction of identity and history in Africa and elsewhere.
Folklore --- Griots --- Mandingo (African people) --- Music --- Performance --- History and criticism. --- Gambia --- Social life and customs. --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Malinke (African people) --- Mandé (African people) --- Manding (African people) --- Mandingue (African people) --- Mandinka (African people) --- Mandino (African people) --- Maninka (African people) --- Maninkaalu (African people) --- Soce (African people) --- Sosse (African people) --- Gambie --- Colony of the Gambia --- Republic of the Gambia --- Respublika Gambii︠a︡ --- Gambii︠a︡ --- Gambia, The --- The Gambia --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Historians --- Storytellers --- ガンビア --- Ganbia --- History and criticism --- 冈比亚 --- Gangbiya
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In 1985, while she was an apprentice griot or jelimuso, Barbara G. Hoffman saw and recorded a remarkable event that took place in the small town of Kita, Mali. For four days, thousands of griots from all parts of the Mande world gathered together to talk, sing, and make music in celebration of the opening of the new Hall of Griots and the installation of the recently named Head Griot. This unprecedented assembly, unheard of in the history of the Mande, also marked the end of the two-year long 'War of the Griots'; a deadly conflict fought with the tools of the griot verbal masters - words, reputations, and sorcery. "Griots at War" captures griots in action as they made speeches, sang songs of praise, and danced in honor of their renewed unity. Hoffman's discerning transcription and examination of the speeches not only reveals the oratorical skills of griots, but their skill in using history, metaphor, religion, proverbs, and praise to mend a community that had been torn apart by war. But Hoffman discovers a startlingly keen edge to the griots' words. Who intervenes, and how, when war breaks out in the griot community? The speeches made at Kita expose both griots and nobles engaged in behaviours that were strikingly unexpected of people of their status. Hoffman shows that griot public oratory also functions to delineate the boundaries of griot castes and to persuade other castes to recognise and respect what gives each caste its unique identity. While the verbal art of griots has been well documented in the form of epic poetry, "Griots at War" brings their formidable linguistic abilities to the fore as they negotiate, reestablish, and assert their cultural power. This exceptional book offers surprising and important insights into the multiple meanings of Mande culture, caste, and identity.
Oratory --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Griots --- Mandingo (African people) --- Story-telling --- Telling of stories --- Oral interpretation --- Children's stories --- Folklore --- Oral interpretation of fiction --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Oral history --- Argumentation --- Oratory, Primitive --- Speaking --- Language and languages --- Rhetoric --- Speeches, addresses, etc. --- Debates and debating --- Elocution --- Eloquence --- Lectures and lecturing --- Persuasion (Rhetoric) --- Public speaking --- Malinke (African people) --- Mandé (African people) --- Manding (African people) --- Mandingue (African people) --- Mandinka (African people) --- Mandino (African people) --- Maninka (African people) --- Maninkaalu (African people) --- Soce (African people) --- Sosse (African people) --- Ethnology --- Historians --- Storytellers --- Kita. --- Social life and customs. --- Performance --- Kita (Kayes, Mali) --- Kita (Mali) --- Kita, Mali
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