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| Title: | Displacement in French/displacement of French: the reggae and R'n'B of Tiken Jah Fakoly and Corneille |
| Author: | Bourderionnet, Olivier |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Periodical: | Research in African Literatures |
| Volume: | 39 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Pages: | 14-23 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Ivory Coast - Côte d'Ivoire Rwanda |
| Subjects: | popular music French language |
| About persons: | Doumbia Moussa Corneille Nyungura |
| External link: | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/research_in_african_literatures/v039/39.4.bourderionnet.pdf |
| Abstract: | This paper examines the work and situations of two francophone singer-songwriters from Africa, Tiken Jah Fakoly and Corneille, through the notion of displacement. Tiken Jah Fakoly (born Doumbia Moussa in 1968) is from the Ivory Coast and lives in exile in Bamako, Mali. Corneille (born Corneille Nyungura in 1977) is from Rwanda, lives in Montreal, and recently became a Canadian citizen. In discussing these musicians' production and reception through the notion of displacement, the author addresses important questions regarding language, identity, and the social role of the African pop artist in France and the francophone world. Tiken Jah Fakoly and Corneille embody the mediation between publics from two continents and the global music industry in a particular geopolitical context. They also belong to a generation of artists whose productions signal a shift in French popular music representations of Africa and Africans. Discussing these artists' choice to sing in French makes it possible to reflect on the position of the French-language African artist in the English-dominated world of pop music. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract, edited] |
