[DOC] Stan Getz Sax Solos by Wise Publications at Arts-Photography

Description

Bamako Sounds tells the story of an African city; its people; their values; and their music. Centered on the music and musicians of Bamako; Malirsquo;s booming capital city; this book reveals a community of artists whose lives and works evince a complex world shaped by urban culture; postcolonialism; musical expression; religious identity; and intellectual property.Drawing on years of ethnographic research with classically trained players of the kora (a twenty-one-string West African harp) as well as more contemporary; hip-hop influenced musicians and producers; Ryan Thomas Skinner analyzes how Bamako artists balance social imperatives with personal interests and global imaginations. Whether performed live on stage; broadcast on the radio; or shared over the Internet; music is a privileged mode of expression that suffuses Bamakorsquo;s urban soundscape. It animates professional projects; communicates cultural values; pronounces public piety; resounds in the marketplace; and quite literally performs the nation. Music; the artists who make it; and the audiences who interpret it thus represent a crucial means of articulating and disseminating the ethics and aesthetics of a varied and vital Afropolitanism; in Bamako and beyond.