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• 19 mar 2016

  Safi

  Call for papers - Representation

  Cinema and music

  Cet événement académique va essayer de questionner le rapport intime existant entre le cinéma et la musique. Cette alchimie qui unit ces deux arts nous semble mériter réflexion. Un film met en scène une histoire, un énoncé, une forme, représentant d’une façon ou d’une autre le monde, avec un souci de fidélité ou de prise de distance. La musique, elle, crée un objet complémentaire, un sens second greffé sur le premier, qui vient l’enrichir peut-être ou l’embellir en le « couvrant » de texture sous forme de notes...

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• 30 avr 2015

  Abidjan

  Call for papers - Africa

  African popular music: the veritable voices of the people?

  Perhaps for reasons related to intellectual elitism or simply because of the lack of an effective means of analysis, African popular arts (Modern African music in particular) keep on being pushed to the margins of academic discourse on postcolonial cultural identities. To this day and more than not, in classroom discussions on African culture(s), a place of pride is ascribed to literature (at films at times) despite the high rate of illiteracy and difficulty distributing them, which makes these products utterly inaccessible to the masses. That African writers like Ngugi (Kenya) and Boubacar Boris Diop (Senegal) decide to take their leave from colonial languages on behalf on “penning” their stories in African languages is sometimes hailed as an exceptional way towards cultural affirmation and identity recalibration. In terms of their production and consumption, however, popular musical forms have an absolute impact on African populations. These forms are transfigurations of the people’s daily life experience in that they bring together and crystallize the identities of the musical forms in question more than any other artistic expression.

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