{"id":1313,"date":"2009-01-24T11:02:40","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T16:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2015-01-07T14:03:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T18:03:31","slug":"escape-from-parochial-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=1313","title":{"rendered":"Modern Ancient African Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the conversation continues<\/a> about trad v modern<\/a> in African music, and since we read something germane about it for class yesterday, and since I’m still tryna maintain that pdf-blog grind, I thought I’d take the opportunity to share another:<\/p>\n

      >> Monson, Ingrid. \u201cRiffs, Repetition, and Theories of Globalization.\u201d Ethnomusicology 43,
\n      no. 1 (1999): 31-65.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, I don’t recommend the whole article; rather, I recommend skipping to p.52 and starting from there. Frankly, I find the part about globalization theory and riffs and Count Basie uncompelling and confusing (as did my students), but I do like the way that Monson zeroes in on some of the contradictions and challenges African musicians have faced working in the “world” industry. <\/p>\n

Noting, for example, that Baaba Maal’s Firin in Fouta<\/a><\/em> (1994) was received ambivalently by the “world music” market because of its incorporation of funk, reggae, hip-hop, “techno” (don’t know why Monson and Eyre<\/a> call it that — sounds much more like house to me) and other Afrodiasporic\/”Western” genres, Monson examines some of the reasons behind Maal’s aesthetic choices and why they fell flat for certain audiences: <\/p>\n


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Taking Baaba Maal’s words at face value, here’s some modern “ancient African music”<\/a> — i.e., early 90s dancehall reggae. (I’d embed it here, but that’s been disabled by the rotting corpse known as universalmusicgroup<\/a> — ah, industry so savvy.)<\/p>\n

Actually, here it is via imeem —<\/p>\n

[update 2\/3\/10<\/strong>: haha, so much for the imeem link, which disappeared after MySpace acquired and nuked the site; I guess no one wants people to hear Baaba Maal at w&w. sorry folks, you’ll have to hunt it down elsewhere.] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since the conversation continues about trad v modern in African music, and since we read something germane about it for class yesterday, and since I’m still tryna maintain that pdf-blog grind, I thought I’d take the opportunity to share another:       >> Monson, Ingrid. \u201cRiffs, Repetition, and Theories of Globalization.\u201d Ethnomusicology 43,       no. 1 (1999): 31-65. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[400,413,191,272,408,407,249],"class_list":["post-1313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academic","tag-africa","tag-ethno","tag-pdf","tag-reggae","tag-video","tag-worldmusic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8398,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions\/8398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}