hale&sidikou2014
Hale, Thomas & Aissata Sidikou (eds.): |
CONTENTS
Introduction
Thomas A. Hale & Aissata G. Sidikou
New Perspectives on Women’s Songs and Singing in West Africa 1
1.
Marame Gueye
Wolof Women Break the Taboo of Sex through Songs 9
2.
Kirsten Langeveld
Jola Kanyalen Songs from the Casamance, Senegal: From “Tradition” to Globalization 34
3.
Boubé Namaïwa
Azna Deities in the Songs of Taguimba Bouzou: A Window on the Visible and Invisible 53
4.
Ariane Deluz
Initiation and Funeral Songs from the Guro of Côte d’lvoire 79
5.
Marloes Janson
Praise Performances by Jalimusola in the Gambia 88
6.
Aline Tauzin
Saharan Music: About a Feminine Modernity 112
7.
Luciana Penna-Diaw
Songs by Wolof Women 124
8.
Brahima Camara & Jan Jansen
A Heroic Performance by Siramori Diabaté in Mali 136
9.
George Joseph
Women’s Tattooing Songs from Kajoor, Senegal 151
10.
Fatima Mounkaïla
Drummed Poems by Songhay-Zarma Women of Niger 160
11.
Aissata G. Sidikou
Space, Language, and Identity in the Palm Tree 192
12.
Bah Diakité
Bambara Women’s Songs in Southern Mali 199
13.
Aissata Niandou
Patriarchy in Songs and Poetry by Zarma Women 212
14.
Beverly B. Mack
Muslim Hausa Women’s Songs 224
15.
Thomas A. Hale
Lamentation and Politics in a Sahelian Song 257
16.
Susan J. Rasmussen
Transformations in Tuareg Tende Singing: Women’s Voices and Local Feminisms 263
17.
Nienke Muurling
Income Strategies of a Jelimuso in Mali and France 290
Index 303
Contributors 339