Women's songs from West Africa
By: edited by Thomas A. Hale and Aissata G. Sidikou
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Bloomington; Indianapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780253010179; 9780253010216
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Music; History and criticism; Women musicians; West Africans
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : new perspectives on women's songs and singing in West Africa  -- Thomas A. Hale and Aissata G. Sidikou; title: Wolof women break the taboo of sex through songs  -- Marame Gueye; title: Jola kanyalen songs from the Casamance, Senegal : from "tradition" to globalization  -- Kirsten Langeveld; title: Azna deities in the songs of Taguimba Bouzou : a window on the visible and invisible  -- Boubé Namaïwa; title: Initiation and funeral songs from the Guro of Côte d'Ivoire  -- Ariane Deluz; title: Praises performances by jalimusolu in the Gambia  -- Marloes Janson; title: Saharan music : about a feminine modernity  -- Aline Tauzin; title: Songs by Wolof women  -- Luciana Penna-Diaw; title: A heroic performance by Siramori Diabaté in Mali  -- Brahima Camara and Jan Jansen; title: Women's tattooing songs from Kajoor, Senegal  -- George Joseph; title: Drummed poems by Songhay-Zarma women of Niger  -- Fatima Mounkaïla; title: Space, language, and identity in the palm tree  -- Aissata G. Sidikou; title: Bambara women's songs in southern Mali  -- Bah Diakité; title: Patriarchy in songs and poetry by Zarma women  -- Aissata Niandou; title: Muslim Hausa women's songs  -- Beverly B. Mack; title: Lamentation and politics in the Sahelian song  -- Thomas A. Hale; title: Transformations in Tuareg tende singing : women's voices and local feminisms  -- Susan J. Rasmussen; title: Income strategies of a jelimuso in Mali and France -- Nienke Muurling.