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BEYOND NATIONHOOD: HAUL MUSIC FROM A POSTCOLONIAL PERSPECTIVE IN WESTERN SAHARA AND MAURITANIA.
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African Music: Journal for the International Library of African Music . 2020, Vol. 11 Issue 2, p40-58. 19p. - Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- This article examines the mobility of a precolonial musical style known as Haul music in two African countries, Western Sahara and Mauritania. Haul music is based on a modal system in which music and poetry are intrinsically related. This article traces the historical and musicological aspects of the Haul modal system in Western Sahara and Mauritania by offering an insight into how the postcolonial period has determined two narratives of Haul: a historical nationalism by way of revitalising the precolonial past in Mauritania; and political nationalism when reconsidering the ongoing process of decolonisation in Western Sahara and the exile of its people to the refugee camps of the Hamada desert since 1975. Further, this article shows how the mobility of the Haul modal system provides a reconsideration of a precolonial past in existing music cultures in North Africa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *MUSICAL style
*REFUGEE camps
*EXILE (Punishment)
*DECOLONIZATION
AFRICAN music
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00654019
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- African Music: Journal for the International Library of African Music
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 151947572
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v11i2.2313