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Chapter 5 was originally published as “Money Trouble in an African Art World: Copyright, Piracy, and the Politics of Culture in Postcolonial Mali,” IASPM@Journal 3, no. 1 (2012): 63–79; reprinted by permission.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Skinner, Ryan Thomas, author.

Bamako sounds : the Afropolitan ethics of Malian music / Ryan Thomas Skinner.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4529-4441-8

1. Music—Moral and ethical aspects—Mali—Bamako. 2. Music—Moral and ethical aspects—Mali. 3. Musicians—Mali—Bamako—Social conditions. 4. Ethnomusicology—Mali—Bamako. 5. Group identity—Mali—Bamako. 6. Group identity in the performing arts—Mali—Bamako. 7. Mandingo (African people)—Mali—Bamako—Ethnic identity. 8. City and town life—Mali—Bamako. 9. Bamako (Mali)—Social conditions. I. Title.

ML3917.M35S55 2015

780.96623—dc23

2014025344

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