Title Performing Africa / Paulla A. Ebron.

Publication Info.	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2002]
	©2002

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Description	1 online resource (xviii, 244 pages)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-235) and index.
Contents	Where and when I enter -- Performing Africa -- part 1 Representations/performances. -- Music: Europe and Africa -- Performances -- part 2 Professional dreams. -- Curators of tradition -- Personalistic economy -- Interview encounters: the performance of profession -- part 3 Culture as commodity. -- Travel stories -- Tourists as pilgrims.
Summary	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.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Griots -- Gambia -- Music -- History and criticism.
	Mandingo (African people) -- Gambia -- Music -- History and criticism.
	Music -- Gambia -- History and criticism.
	Gambia -- Social life and customs.
	Folklore -- Performance -- Gambia.
	MUSIC -- Ethnic.
	MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Folk & Traditional.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
	Folklore -- Performance. (OCoLC)fst00930332
	Griots. (OCoLC)fst00947988
	Mandingo (African people) (OCoLC)fst01007491
	Music. (OCoLC)fst01030269
	Mandingo (African people) -- Music. (OCoLC)fst01425881
	Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
	Gambia. (OCoLC)fst01202705
	Etnomusicologie.
	Beïnvloeding.
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
	Music. (OCoLC)fst01423855
Other Form:	Print version: Ebron, Paulla A., 1953- Performing Africa. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2002 0691074887 9780691074887 (DLC) 2001055408 (OCoLC)49326408
ISBN	9781400825219 (electronic bk.)
	1400825210 (electronic bk.)

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