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Jeliya at the Crossroads

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-83059-5

ISBN: 978-3-030-83058-8

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Oct 1, 2021

1 - 10 of 12 Chapters

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Introduction

Feder, Lisa

Pages: 1 –20

[The introduction presents the anthropologist Lisa Feder, and the jelis, Manding, West African oral historians, musicians, and singers, as they cross cultures in the Gambia, Guinea-Conakry, New York, and Paris. The author presents reasons for using a musical, embodied practice as a field...
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Sweetness in the Gambia

Feder, Lisa

Pages: 21 –39

[“A diata baké!” meaning “it is sweet!” characterizes my first trip to the Gambia, West Africa. What starts as utter culture shock transforms into cross-cultural adaptation as my Gambian hosts teach me the daily routines such as greetings and lunchtime rituals. Learning culture from a musical...
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Moving with Gambians

Feder, Lisa

Pages: 41 –59

[Fieldwork generally consists of living in a foreign culture and practicing participant-observation, the general name for anthropological research methods. On my second trip to the Gambia, I was not a researcher, but rather a girlfriend, a music student, and a guest and temporary member of the...
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Doing Time: The Balafon Workshops, United States

Feder, Lisa

Pages: 61 –79

[In learning to play the Manding balafon with Bacar, a Guinean teacher in the United States, I began to see what jelis value through an embodied, musical, and mostly non-verbal practice. My deeply engrained cultural habitus (Bourdieu, The Logic of Practice. Stanford University Press, 1990) to...
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Direct Transmissions: Going with the Flow

Feder, Lisa

Pages: 81 –99

[Guinea has its own flow of events that defies our American sensibilities. On a trip with a Guinean balafon teacher called Bacar in 2004, we, the foreigners, roll eyes at transportation, suffer from food differences, and balk when requested money from the jelimuso who sings for us, unsolicited....
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At Home: Lessons in Respecting Time

Feder, Lisa

Pages: 101 –120

[As I moved between my New York, fast-paced life and my jeli teacher Famoro Dioubaté’s apartment in Harlem, the shift in rhythm of life (Lefebvre 2004) was palpable, relating to two, different moral imperatives. One is structured by the rhythms of the body, which I call “Africa Time” while the...
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Enchanting Cosmopolitan New York

Feder, Lisa

Pages: 121 –142

[In this chapter, Famoro Dioubaté performs Manding music in various iterations in New York. I trace the roots of this musical practice in its transition from its pre-colonial roots to Guinea’s nation-making Authenticité movement in the 1960s to global Manding music today. Famoro’s Manding groove...
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Manding New York: Jeliya Bara Bang

Feder, Lisa

Pages: 143 –165

[“Jeliya is finished!” says Missia Saran Dioubaté. In this chapter we visit present-day jeli-led musical events in Manding communities in both the United States and Paris to witness how jeliya is changing outside of Africa. My methodology shifts to a more classic participant-observer, followed by...
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Patronage: Becoming a Jatigi

Feder, Lisa

Pages: 167 –188

[It is not uncommon for a jeli to have a jatigi, literally, a host, someone with power who can call on his client for services. A jatigi is also a patron, someone who supports a jeli financially and is relied on to “get things done” (Ebron, Performing Africa. Princeton University Press, 2002;...
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Living “in between” Cultures

Feder, Lisa

Pages: 189 –208

[Jeli informants and I find a way of living between two cultures. The Manding jeli modality includes trickery and flattery, of unforeseen gifts and requests, of negotiating everything, and prioritizes good human relations. This contrasts to the “global hierarchy of value” modality, (Herzfeld, The...

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