Abidjan USA
Subtitle: music, dance, and mobility in the lives of four Ivorian immigrants
By: Daniel B. Reed
Series: African expressive cultures; African expressive cultures
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780253022295; 9780253022219
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Ethnomusicology; Ivoirians; Music; History and criticism
Description: Reed integrates individual stories with the study of performance to understand the forces of diaspora and mobility in the lives of musicians, dancers, and mask performers originally from Côte d'Ivoire who now live in the United States.
Notes: "Ethnomusicology multimedia website : guide to online media examples": pages ix-xii; "Glossary": pages 285-289.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-308) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface. A confluence of beginnings; title: Introduction. Abidjan USA ; "Ballet" as nexus of discourses; title: Vado Diomande. Kekene : the performance of oneness in NYC ; "If you aren't careful, you don't know where you will end up!" : Vado Diomande and transcendence; title: Samba Diallo. "Culture brings everybody together" : Samba Diallo's Ayoka ; "I'm happy because I'm different" : Samba Diallo and exceptionalism; title: Sogbety Diomande. "You know you're in a different country" : Sogbety Diomande's West African drum and dance ; "When you're in a new context, you try things that work in that context" : Sogbety Diomande and adaptability; title: Dr. Djo Bi Irie Simon. "Open village" : an Ivorian wedding in an Indiana cornfield ; "Everyone is a cook, but he's a chef!" : Dr. Djo Bi and innovation; title: Finale. Thoughts on the way out.