SOSC 4510 Chapter --: Seminar 10 - Nov 12 - Transformation of the Traditional

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 4510
• Professor: Elleni Zeleke

Document Summary

Diawara in barber, mande popular culture: revisited by electronic media in barber (textbook. Mande cultural area in the zone of in uence of the old empire of mali. In the mande cultural area, each tradition is originated in an identi able social layer which directed it to another, equally easily de nable layer. Suppression of slavery and brutal competition initiated by the colonizer over the control of persons. Through the passive or active complicity of the formed rulers, the administration enlisted former slaves in its service. The layer of of cial audiences for the chronicles / griots became ssured. The griots certainly made great efforts to solicit new kinds of patrons, especially the newly rich, but the author exaggerates when he talks of griot mendicancy. 1940s and 50s, radio diffusion nationale of malie, heir to colonial radio and transmitting from bamako, later relayed the new composition which progressively spread across the whole country.