Music as Cultural Text, Gebunden

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1. Introduction: Black Music in Contexts: Africa and the New Black Diasporas.- PART I: The Healing, Spiritual, Social, and Cultural Functions of African Music. 2. Between the Sacred and the Profane: Popular Music and the Dissemination and Policing of Islamic Knowledge in Senegal.- 3. Religious Songs and Nation-building in Postcolonial Ghana.- 4. Proverbs as Verbal Art Forms in Ghanaian Hiplife Songs.- PART II: Gender, Power, and Politics in African Music.- 5. Gendered Concerns: Subversion of Patriarchal Order and Women's Empowerment in Ngoyaan Songs.- 6. Playing with Class: Honor, Griotisme, and Professional Artists in the Tuareg Music Economy.- 7. The Past's Haunting of the Present: Musical Memorializations of Patrice Lumumba and Thomas Sankara in West African Popular Culture.- PART III: Cosmopolitan and Transnational Features of African Music.- 8. In Search of Mahalia Jackson and Aminata Fall: A Comparative Study of Senegalese and African American Blues.- 9. From Zouk Lovers and Cabo Lovers to Mais Kizomba: Youth, Music, and Change in Urban Dakar, Senegal.- 10. Balafon Without Borders: The Case of Adamou Daou.- 11. "I am Only an African!": The Image of West Africa in the Music of Afro-French Hip-Hop Collective Sexion d'Assaut.