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| Title: | Cultural politics in the post-colony: music, nationalism and Statism in Mali, 1964-75 |
| Author: | Skinner, Ryan Thomas |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Periodical: | Africa: Journal of the International African Institute (ISSN 0001-9720) |
| Volume: | 82 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Pages: | 511-534 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Mali |
| Subjects: | musical groups nationalism cultural policy |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/23356103 |
| Abstract: | This article examines the shifting experience of national belonging and State patronage at a crucial juncture in Mali's postcolonial history, the ten-year period (1964-1975) that marked the end of the country's First Republic (1960-1968) and the beginning of its Second Republic (1968-1991). The focus is on the contested politics of culture that characterized this period, elucidated through the experiences and expressions of two popular dance bands, Las Maravillas de Mali, whose members were trained in Cuba in 1964-1965, and Les Ambassadeurs du Motel, the house band of the Motel de Bamako, formed in 1972. Through oral history, recorded sound, and documentary evidence, the author explores the ways members of the two bands accommodated and negotiated the 'nationalist' and 'Statist' regimes of Mali's socialist Frist Republic and the subsequent military dictatorship. By following the postcolonial careers of Las Maravillas and Les Ambassadeurs the author examines social and musical encounters with national community and State authority from which broader questions of political sovereignty and accountability emerge. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract, edited] |
