The 100th issue has landed! It’s our biggest issue ever and includes a special 32-page section celebrating 15 years of Songlines and world music.
There are also 100 golden tickets hidden in copies throughout the globe. Find a ticket and you’ve won
a weekend pass to this year’s WOMAD Charlton Park.
The accompanying free 16-track covermount CD features tracks from the ten best new releases, including Toumani & Sidiki Diabaté, Nickel Creek and Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars.
Along with the 32-page special feature, the issue includes: Songlines Music Awards 2014 winners; our definitive 2014 festival guide; Toumani & Sidiki Diabaté; Kronos Quartet; Kayhan Kalhor;
a Beginner’s Guide to Joyce Moreno; plus plenty of CD, book and live reviews.
Finally a special thanks to the Songlines community around the world for your continued support. Here’s to the next 100 issues.
The Songlines Team
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FYI:
Culture as a Resource – Understanding the Role of Art and Cultural
Performance in Envisioning the Future
Workshop funded by the Point Sud Programme, Germany
Venue and Date: University of Ouagadougou, 16.-21.12.2014
Convenors: Dorothea Schulz (Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology,
University of Cologne); Nadine Sieveking (Centre for Area Studies, Leipzig University)
Topic and objectives:
The workshop explores debates on ‘culture and development’ in Africa to understand the
ways actors, located in different institutional settings, draw on art and cultural
performance to envision a future for African societies. It aims to understand what new
policies go along with the promotion of ‘culture as a resource’ and what (and whose)
notions of development and of culture are being promoted in this process. We are
particularly interested in the experiences of activists in the domain of arts and culture,
and seek to foster dialogue among them, as well as between them, policy makers and
scholars. The workshop’s interest in ‘culture as a resource’ revolves on a view of culture
as an object of debate and as a set of practices, discourses and institutional arrangements
mobilized by actors who are positioned unequally in power hierarchies. We thus conceive
of culture heuristically as a domain of struggle over meaning. Likewise, we use
‘development’ as a heuristic device that allows us to explore the actors, discourses,
practices and institutional contexts that shape, and are affected by, current debates on
culture as a resource. By proposing this heuristic conceptual framework we seek to bridge
the divide between theoretical and practical knowledge with the aim of establishing a
forum for an empirically relevant and fruitful critical exchange.
The workshop is conceived as a combination of scholarly exchange, thematically focused
working groups, and a public debate. We invite contributions that examine:
1) Who are the actors, interest groups and institutions engaged in debates on culture
as a resource?
2) How do politics of national governments, international donor and development
agencies, and recent politics of administrative decentralization affect the debates?
3) What new translocal dynamics and networks emerge in this process and how do
they feed back into dynamics at the local and national levels?
We particularly welcome contributions that consider the initiatives by local actors who
seek to balance the influence of state administration and foreign donor agencies by
engaging in networking activities across national borders. With this perspective, we adopt
the Point Sud programme agenda of creating a forum for reflection on the historicity and
potential of local knowledge and knowledge production.
The invited participants will address these questions by focusing on different domains in
which the nexus between culture and development is currently promoted. These domains
are in themselves indicative of several interrelated trends, such as the booming of
regional and local festivals; the promotion of ‘cultural’ tourism and related efforts to
‘valorise’ local traditions as national or world cultural heritage; a growing presence of
artists from Africa on international stages who capitalize on expanding transnational
networks and who use transnational and translocal resources and forms of symbolic
capital to articulate their own perspectives on social, political or economic developments.
Call for papers:
In addition to inviting several senior researchers to the workshop, we especially
encourage young scholars to apply with a paper proposal containing an abstract of not
more than 300 words, full name, affiliation and contact by 02. June 2014. Proposals
should be sent to both convenors. The selection of papers and participants will be
announced before end of July. Confirmed participants will be asked to provide an
extended abstract before the end of September and send the full paper by 30. November
2014.
Contact:
dschulz5@uni-koeln.de
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SATURDAY 17TH MAY 2014
1PM-4PM BAYEFALL SONGS& SABAR DANCE - LIVE MUSIC & DANCE WITH BATCH GUEYE! ... BAYEFALL SONGS & MUSIC. 1pm- 1:45pm Batch Gueye invites friends known, and not-yet made, to London's first, open "Zikar": A coming-together of people to sing Bayefall songs, praise songs which are carried along by the sounds of mesmeric, Sabar poly-rhythms. ***** Open to all. Songs will be taught orally (i.e. no written words), please feel free to bring shakers or bells (no drums please!). SABAR DANCE CHOREOGRAPY 2PM-3:45PM After the session of song and music, we'll find our bodies more than ready,& very receptive to the exciting Senegalese, dance routines that Batch will teach us. **** Suitable for all who are physically fit and well BUT please note this is an aerobic form of dance, with specific moves that take time to absorb depending on your experience. DRUMMERS**** Aren't we lucky? Providing the pulsating drumbeats will be Dembis Thioung, Mohamed Gueye and Ouzin Fam. These percussionists will have your feet moving, and will provide a soundtrack that lifts you into the movement. Sublime, polyrhythmic sounds that will tune into your own vibrations. MORE INFO ON BATCH! http://dancingbatch.wix.com/batch LOCATION *** SPACE 31 Falkirk Street, Hackney London N1 6HF TRANSPORT*** BUSES: 26, 35, 47, 48, 55,78 67, 149, 242, 243 394 Tube and train: Old Street: Exit 2, 10 mins walk or 243 bus towards Shoreditch. Liverpool Street: 15 mins walk or 149 or 242 bus towards Shoreditch Hoxton Overground https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfH60MnlMV0&feature=youtu.be ***PRICE BAYEFALL SONGS ONLY - £10 in advance // £12 on the door SABAR DANCE ONLY - £ 14 in advance // £16 on the door WHOLE DAY - £23 in advance // £26 on the door TO PAY IN ADVANCE CONTACT DUNDUNKINI@gmail.com.OR CALL 07949 761 589. ADVANCE BOOKINGS CLOSE ON 1st MAY 2014.
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