Mandinka Spoken Art
Folk-tales, Griot Accounts and Songs
Edited by: Katrin Pfeiffer. Series edited by: Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig †.
Series: WK Verbal Art and Documentary Literature in African Languages Volume 4
1997310 pp.
Text language(s): English
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The main object of this volume is to present a selection of the rich cultural heritage of the Mandinka people in the Gambia / West Africa. Mandinka is spoken by 1.5 mill. speakers in the Gambia, in Mali, in Senegal and Guinea-Bissau. The editor provides orally transmitted Mandinka texts and their English translation. This selection thus opens the opportunity for further studies in the fields of spoken art, grammar, sociology, cultural anthropology, history, and musicology.
Out of an entire corpus of 296 folk-tales, 4 griot accounts, 29 songs, and about 100 riddles and 100 proverbs this volume gives a selection of 28 folk-tales, 3 Griot accounts, and 6 songs, arranged according to the genre to which the individual texts belong, thus showing a range of beautiful Mandinka texts which are representative for the respective genre.
Each text is preceded by a short introduction about its content together with data about the informant, place and date of recording. The presentation of the Griot accounts is preceded by an alphabetic glossary with frequently occuring, culturally specific terms, which remain untranslated in the English text.
Under these links you will find the PhD dissertation by the author (together with an Audio-CD) and further ethnomusicological descriptions of folksongs and poetics in African languages and cultures:
Accompanying material:
- African Media Cultures – Cultures de médias en Afrique
(ISBN 978-3-89645-246-7 ) - Aspects of the Aesthetics of Hausa Verbal Art
(ISBN 978-3-89645-264-1 ) - Dialoge, Prosa und Liedtexte aus dem Lehrbuch der Hausa-Sprache (Audio-CD)
(ISBN 978-3-89645-007-4 ) - Finding Female Voice
(ISBN 978-3-89645-282-5 ) - L’empire du verbe et l’éloquence du silence
(ISBN 978-3-89645-215-3 ) - Le jeu et le sérieux
(ISBN 978-3-89645-208-5 ) - Nyagalen Mugan Tarawele
(ISBN 978-3-89645-263-4 ) - Perpetuating the Politics of Praise
(ISBN 978-3-89645-213-9 ) - Poetic Meter and Musical Form in Tashlhiyt Berber Songs
(ISBN 978-3-89645-398-3 ) - Sprache und Musik in Mandinka-Erzählungen
(ISBN 978-3-89645-265-8 )
Cross-reference:
- 50 Jahre Unabhängigkeit in Afrika
(ISBN 978-3-89645-829-2 ) - Advances in Kanuri Scholarship
(ISBN 978-3-89645-104-0 ) - Aktuelle Forschungen zu afrikanischen Sprachen
(ISBN 978-3-89645-401-0 ) - Chanter l’existence
(ISBN 978-3-89645-287-0 ) - Codeswitching in Gambia
(ISBN 978-3-927620-24-7 ) - Lexikon der afrikanistischen Erzählforschung
(ISBN 978-3-927620-64-3 ) - Liedtexte der Dama, Südwestafrika/Namibia
(ISBN 978-3-89645-354-9 ) - Multidisciplinary Views on the Horn of Africa
(ISBN 978-3-89645-683-0 ) - The Form and Meaning of Otjiherero Praises
(ISBN 978-3-89645-269-6 ) - Topics in West African Discourse-Pragmatics
(ISBN 978-3-89645-856-8 ) - Trommeln in der Kirche
(ISBN 978-3-89645-917-6 )
Reviews
Insgesamt gibt dieser Band einen gelungenen Überblick über die Wortkunst der Mandinka.
Eleonore Adwiraah in Afrika und Übersee, 81/1998, 151-152
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