Index
Adorno, Theodor, 6
aesthetics, 79–80, 85–86, 96–102
Africa, idea of, 10–11, 169–70, 182–84
African diaspora. See diaspora
Afropolis. See under urbanism
Afropolitan ethics, 1, 8–13, 31, 37, 179, 182, 186–87: of artistiya and jeliya, 74, 76; Issa Bamba’s, 68–69; musical aesthetics and, 80; nongovernmental culture and, 152; as religiously motivated project, 108, 111; urbanism and, 44–46; wildness and, 16–18. See also ethics
Afropolitanism, 1–5, 8–12, 181–87: cosmopolitanism and, 2, 181–84; Chielozona Eze and, 208n2; Mande popular music and, 105–6; paradoxical optimism and, 169; patriotism and, 159, 162–63, 165–68, 170–71, 179; postcolonial subjectivity and, 8–13. See also Afropolitan ethics
Afropositivism, 186
Agamben, Giorgio, 18
“Allahou Akbar,” 122. See also Tata Pound
ambiance, 57–61, 75, 197n9, 198n13
Amkoullel, 156
anthropology, 7
Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 162, 169–70, 185
Arendt, Hannah: inter-est, 33, 36, 108–9; on promises, 34–35; on public and private, 17; on uncertainty, 196n12; vita activa, 8
artistiya, 49–50, 53, 102, 111: Afropolitan ethics and, 76; ambiance and, 58–59; Toumani Diabaté and, 103; feminist, 104–5; history, 54–55; jeliya and, 55–57, 59, 67, 74, 197n4; Nana Soumbounou and, 92, 99
Association des Artistes du Mali, l’Ambiance, 59–60
authenticity, cultural, 157, 178
badenya, 17, 29, 82. See also conviviality
balimaya, 200n10
bals poussières. See dust parties
Bamba, Issa Sory, 53, 56, 61–69, 74
Bamba, Sorry, 62, 67, 137–38, 198n13
Barchiesi, Franco, 133–34
Basta Killa. See Keita, Lassy
Berthier, Philippe, 141, 145, 147–48. See also Mali K7; Ou Bien Productions
Biennale Artistique et Culturelle, 139–40, 166
Bolibana (neighborhood), 15, 18, 19, 195n3
“Bolibana” (song), 18, 21–25, 32, 45. See also Need One
bolomanboli, 87, 99. See also improvisation
Born, Georgina, 7
Boulevard de l’Indépendence, 107, 124, 205n23. See also Diabaté, Toumani
Briggs, Charles, 184
BuMDA (Bureau Malien du Droit d’Auteur), 133, 139, 142, 144, 145, 147–48
bush, the, 26
call to prayer, Muslim. See adhan
Césaire, Aimé, 29
Chatterjee, Partha, 206n7
Chernoff, John Miller: on African identities, 6; on diversity of music in Africa, 105; as essentialist, 201n14; Hustling Is Not Stealing, 28; on musical tradition, 103
chorus in song, 98–99
Cinquantenaire. See under Mali
“Cinquantenaire du Mali” (music video), 160–65
Cissoko, Dialy Mady, 53, 69–72, 113. See also Dialyco
Cissoko, Issa, 19–20, 21–22, 37–38. See also Need One
city (as space), 26, 27. See also urbanism
civility, 29. See also wildness, civility and
Connor, Steven, 96
conviviality: greetings as sign of, 20; jeliya and, 114; kunbɛn and, 82; Need One and, 16–17; precarity and, 24, 32, 203n10; Nana Soumbounou and, 95–96, 102; space and, 27–28; tea drinking as sign of, 121; tension of popular and political culture and, 164–65. See also badenya; ambiance
coolness, 97–101, 102. See also hotness
copyright, 133, 135–36, 139–42, 148, 152, 203n1. See also piracy
Cordes Anciennes, 84. See also Diabaté, Sidiki (father of Toumani)
cosmopolitanism, 2, 162, 181, 182–84, 208n2
counter-public, 119–23
courtyard (as space), 29–30, 32
Cutter, Charles, 71–72
cybercafés, 15
dankun, 26
de Certeau, Michel, 28
Découverte Award, 57
dégriotisation, 72
Dembelé, Fassiriman, 91
de Villers, Gauthier, 28
Dia, Racine, 131
Diabaté, Djeli Bourama, 200n8
Diabaté, Kassé Mady, 125–26
Diabaté, Mamadou, 163
Diabaté, Massa Makan, 74
Diabaté, Sidiki (father of Toumani), 4, 71, 78, 83–85, 89, 100, 199n4, 200n8
Diabaté, Sidiki (son of Toumani), 3–5, 160–65
Diabaté, Tata, 73, 107, 113–15, 122, 123, 126, 129
Diabaté, Toumani, 3: improvisation and, 99; as international artist, 146–47, 205n22; fadenya and, 88–89, 102–3, 199n4; “Kayira,” 77–86; LittleBigPlanet and, 107, 128–29, 130; “Mali Sajo,” 123–25
Diakité, Mandé, 144
Dialyco, 73, 113–14. See also Cissoko, Dialy Mady
Diarra, Djo Dama, 38–39, 41–42, 43, 120. See also Tata Pound
Diawara, Fatoumata, 172, 173, 174
Diouf, Mamadou, 162
Dixon, 38, 107, 122. See also Tata Pound
dɔnkili. See song
Doumbia, Miriam, 47
Drissa (harpist from Bamako), 177
dugu. See city
Durán, Lucy: on female vocal timbre, 198n14; hunter identity and Malian musicians, 26; on New Ancient Strings, 85; on ŋaaraya, 100; on shame, gendering of, 40–41; on song, 200n11
dust parties, 60–61
Ensemble Instrumental National (EIN), 3, 48, 69, 71, 84, 136, 200n8
ethics, 1, 3, 4, 186: aesthetics and, 78–80, 88, 99–102; in Issa Bamba’s performance, 64; de Beauvoir on, 9; gender and, 104; morality and, disjuncture between, 25; sociability and, 121; of urban wildness, 28. See also Afropolitan ethics
“Exile Is Bad.” See “Tunga Man Ɲi”
extraversion, 68–69
Eyre, Banning, 146
Eze, Chielozona, 208n2
fadenya, 88–90, 91, 103. See also fasiya; patrimony
Fakoly, Tiken Jah, 172–73
fasada, 114. See also praise song
fasiya, 78, 82, 89. See also patrimony
father-child-ness. See fadenya
Ferguson, James, 30
Fernandes, Sujatha, 155
Festival sur le Niger, Le, 168
fɔlikan, 85–86
Foucault, Michel, 157
Françafrique, La, 183
France, 51–53
Frith, Simon, 77
Gadaffi, Muammar, 166–68
Gambia, The, 69
Gilroy, Paul, 162
goumbé, 198n13
greetings: as sign of conviviality, 20; in taxi 34–35. See also conviviality
grinw, 19–20
griot. See jeliya
Grosz-Ngaté, Maria, 40
Groupe Issa Bamba. See Bamba, Issa Sory
Hall, Stuart, 8
Harlem City, 33–34
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 6
Heidegger, Martin, 25
Hesmondhalgh, David, 7
Hirschkind, Charles, 202n9
hip hop, 4, 43–44, 111, 119–23, 160–62, 174, 202n9
Hopkins, Nicholas, 99–100
hɔrɔnya, 195n7
Iba One, 160–65
iconography, public, 33–37, 45
Immigration (album), 131
“Immigration” (song), 51–53, 75
Institut National des Arts (INA), 62, 72, 90, 91
intellectual property law, 135–36, 139. See also copyright; piracy
International Monetary Fund (IMF), 30, 141
Internet: music circulation and, 172, 174, 178
interpellation, Islamic, 108–9, 111–13, 118, 120–21, 123, 126–28, 129–30
intersensoriality, 96–97
Islam, 1, 8, 108–11, 128, 155, 158, 201–2nn1–3, 202n9, 205n1. See also poetics of recognition; Qur’anic citation
Islamic interpellation. See interpellation, Islamic
Isolmo. See Cissoko, Issa
Jackson, Michael, 8
Jazeel, Tariq, 183–84
jelisɔn wari, 114
“jeli trouble,” 73–74
jeliya: artistiya and, 55–57, 59, 67, 74; Issa Sory Bamba and, 61, 64; Dialy Mady Cissoko and, 72–73; Sidiki Diabaté and, 3–5, 160; Toumani Diabaté and, 86; feminist artistiya and, 104; hip hop and, 44; “Jeliyaba,” 113–14, 117–18; as postcolonial generic resource, 67–68; vocal timbre and, 198n14
“Jeliyaba,” 113–18
Kanouté, Séran, 71
“Kayira” (kora piece), 79, 80, 82–83, 86–88, 89
Keita, Ablo, 33–34
Keïta, Chérif: on heritage and novelty, 89; Malian musicians and hunter identity, 26; on musicians in Côte d’Ivoire, 139
Keita, Lassy, 21–22, 37–38. See also Need One
Keita, Modibo, 54
Keitala, 33
Kita, 83
Koita, Ami, 56
Konaré, Adame Ba, 101
Konaré, Alpha Oumar, 72, 142, 144–45
Kone, Kassim, 43
Konè, Malamine, 166
Kouyaté, Bassékou, 157
Kouyaté, Batourou Sékou, 84, 89, 200n8
Kouyaté, Kandia, 56
Larkin, Brian: “immaterial urbanism,” 195n10; on insecurity in African life, 27; on signs, 36
Lefebvre, Henri: abstract space, 26, 29, 30; conceived space, 26, 79; lived space, 29, 79; neo-capitalist conception of space, 30; perceived space, 32–33, 76, 79–80, 101
Libya, 166–68
LittleBigPlanet, 128–29
live music scene in Bamako, 146–47
luw. See family compounds
Maiga, Bruno, 72
Mali, 1, 2: artists and post-independence, 135–39, 204n7; Cinquantenaire, 159, 160, 163–64, 166; death of music in, 155–56, 171; independence, 47–48; music in, 7, 156–57; postcolonial, artists in, 53–57; Second Republic, 54–55, 56, 71–72; state of emergency in, 171, 175–78; Third Republic, 55
Maliba, 162
Malibya, 167–68
“Mali Debout,” 160–65
“Mali in Crisis” video, 156, 157
“Mali Sajo,” 107, 124–25. See also Diabaté, Toumani
malo. See shame
Mande Jazz Trio, 147. See also Diabaté, Toumani
Mande social thought: ethical agency in, 66–67; hunters in, 26; society, division of, 40; space in, 26; waleya, 25; wives and mothers, 43. See also personhood; shame
Maninka, 200n9
Mann, Gregory, 186
Master Soumy, 173–74
Mbembe, Achille: Afropolitan aesthetics, 105; Afropolitanism, 1–2; Afropolitanism and ethics, 9–11; on cities as elusive, 12; France Culture (radio program), 163–64; the idea of blackness, 207n16; on “necropolitics,” 31, 158; on the transformation of Africa, 169; on universalism, 183
McLaughlin, Fiona, 110–11, 112
meeting at the head. See kunbɛn
Meillassoux, Claude, 59
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 6
metronome sense, 199n2
Mitsein and Dasein, 25
morality, 1, 4, 194n5: aesthetics and, 78–80, 82; in Issa Sory Bamba’s performance, 63–64; ethics and, disjuncture between, 25; musical, 158, 170–71, 178, 206n4; normative, 152, 208n2; in public iconography, 33, 35; sociability and, 121; and social position, 5–9; Triton Stars and, 94–96, 102; urban, 43, 45; of wives and mothers, 43
Morgan, Andy, 206n6
mɔgɔya. See Mande social thought; personhood
mother-child-ness. See badenya
Muslims. See Islam
ŋaaraya, 100
ɲama, 201n13
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), 166
Ndiaye, Madina, 175
necropolitics, 158, 178. See also biopolitics; Mbembe, Achille, necropolitics
Need One, 16, 18–20, 25, 28, 37–46
neighborhood clubs, 60
neoliberalism, 74, 133–35, 139–44, 145, 150, 152, 207n16
New Ancient Strings, 84, 85, 88–89. See also Diabaté, Toumani
Niang, Moussa, 108, 124, 126–28, 130
nongovernmental culture, 135, 148–52
numu fasa. See praise song
Nuttall, Sarah, 12
Operation Serval, 171
optimism, paradoxical, 169, 178–79
Ou Bien Productions, 141, 143, 145
patrimony, 84, 88, 89, 103, 199n4. See also fasiya
patriotism, Afropolitan, 159, 162–63, 165–68, 170–71, 179
personhood, 25, 40, 69, 79, 89, 102, 114, 186. See also Mande social thought
piety, 110, 111–13, 126, 129–30
Pioneer Jazz, 47, 49. See also Traoré, Amadou
piracy, 90, 133–34, 138, 140–42, 144–50, 152. See also copyright
poetics of recognition, 108–9, 111–13, 118, 120–21, 123, 126–28, 129–30
politics, 113, 120, 134–35, 164, 178. See also biopolitics
popular culture, 109, 110–11, 129–30, 137, 179
popular music, Islamic, 110–11
position, social. See social position
praise song, 110–11: Tata Diabaté’s, 114–18; Nana Soumbounou and, 73; as troubled genre, 66; for Uncle Sékou, 61–66. See also song
precarity, 133–34: and conviviality, 24, 32, 203n10
privatization, 141–42, 144, 152. See also radio, private
projects (de Beauvoir), 8–9: ethical, 5, 10–11
Qur’anic citation, 107–8, 111, 113, 116, 118, 121–23, 124. See also poetics of recognition
radio, 1, 172, 174. See also radio, private
radio, private, 142–43, 145. See also privatization
Radio Mali, 136–38. See also radio, private
Ralph, Michael, 203n10
Ramses (Tata Pound member), 38
rap. See hip hop
recitation in song, 98–99. See also improvisation
Revolution (album), 119–23
Roth, Molly, 74
Sacko, Karounga, 51–55, 75, 132, 152
Sada (drummer from Mopti), 176–77
Sadio (singer and dancer from Kita), 177
Sakakeeny, Matt, 194n5
Sangaré, Oumou, 146
Sarkozy, Nicholas, 166
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 9
Schulz, Dorothea, 100–101, 121
Ségou, 168
Sékou (guitarist from Bamako), 177
Sékou, Sama “Uncle,” 61, 62, 64–66
Seydoni, 148
shame, 40–41, 64, 196n15. See also Mande social thought
Sikasso, 166
“Silence Houphouët d’Or,” 150
Simone, AbdouMaliq: on African cities, 20–22; disjuncture between morality and ethics, 25; “worlding,” 11, 49–50, 109
“Sini Ye Kèlè Ye,” 173–74
Sissako, Aberrahmane, 29–30. See also Bamako
Sissoko, Ballaké, 83, 88–89, 103, 147
Sittlichkeit, 6
siyɔrɔko, 197n8
Soares, Benjamin, 112
socializing. See conviviality
social position, 5–9
social space. See space, social
Société des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs de Musique (SACEM), 135, 137
Sofas de la République, Les, 174, 202n8
song, 86, 98–99, 200nn11–12. See also praise song
Sotramas, 34–36
Souleymane (pianist from Mopti), 177–78
Soumbounou, Nana, 51–53, 73, 75, 90–96, 98–99, 102, 103–4, 200n9
space: civil and wild, 26–28, 52; in Mande social thought, 26; social, 5–6, 9, 16, 19. See also Lefebvre, Henri
speech, everyday, 33, 34–35. See also iconography, public; writing, public
Stoller, Paul, 155
Structural Adjustments Programs (SAPs), 141, 145
subjective agency, 8–9
Sufism, 110–11. See also Islam
Symmetric Orchestra, 103, 107–8, 123–25, 146–47, 205n23. See also Diabaté, Toumani
Taj Mahal (blues musician), 83, 147
Tata Pound, 38–39, 108, 119–23, 126
Thompson, Robert Farris, 96
tɔgɔtigi, 88
Touré, Amadou Toumani, 120, 165
Touré, Samory, 18
tradition, 4, 102–4. See also fadenya
Traoré, Amadou: misery of Malian musicians, 49, 68–69, 75–76; “Tunga Man Ɲi,” 47–48, 52, 71, 75
Traoré, Aminata Drahmane, 72–73
Traoré, Boubacar, 48
Traoré, Mokobé, 160–65
Traoré, Moussa, 142
Traoré, Tiécoura, 195n9
Triton Stars, 90–96, 102, 131–32, 150–52
“Tunga Man Ɲi,” 47–48, 52, 71, 75
urbanism: Afropolis, 12, 35, 184; Afropolitan ethics and, 44–46; Afropolitanism and, 1–2; artists and, 6, 7–8; edginess and, 20–21; gender and, 17; postcoloniality and, 10
USAID (United States Agency for International Development), 143
vita activa, 8
Voluntary Early Retirement (VER), 143–44, 204n16
waleya. See under Mande social thought
wariko, 132–35, 143, 147, 150, 152
“Wariko” (song), 132
wasulu, 4
wildness, 16–17, 53, 186: civility and, 16, 24, 26; ethics of 28
Williams, Raymond, 8
World, The (radio program), 172
World Bank, 30
writing, public, 33, 34, 35–36, 37. See also iconography, public; speech, everyday