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Notes from Africa: A Musical Journey with Youssou NDour

English

By (author): Jenny Cathcart

Notes from Africa traces the rise of popular music on the continent beginning in the 1980s when the term world music was coined as a marketing label and African musicians, notably Youssou NDour and his contemporaries, began to appear on the international stage.

This book explains the musical styles that developed from the 1960s, when many African countries gained their independence. It covers developments in music and society in Senegal, in West Africa and around the continent during the post-independence years and right up to the present day. Jenny Cathcart, drawing on her personal experience in Senegal and her work alongside Youssou NDour, offers stories and portraits of daily life in Africa. The results are fresh insights into contemporary culture, religion and politics as well as future collaborations and developments not only on the continent but in the African diaspora too.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Aug 2019
  • Publisher: Unbound
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781789650471

About Jenny Cathcart

When Jenny Cathcart travelled to Senegal in 1984 as a member of the BBC TV film crew that produced The Africans she met with the rising star Youssou NDour. It was a fateful meeting which led to her abiding interest in African music and culture. When the term world music was coined in London Jenny was a producer on the pioneering TV series Rhythms of the World. In 1995 she proposed an African summer season on BBC Two and produced two of the programmes: the first ever African Prom and the documentary Africas Rock n Roll Years a social and musical history of post-independence Africa. Ten years later in 2005 she was series producer and director of BBC Twos six-part TV series The African Rock n Roll Years. While working at Youssou NDours head office in Dakar she managed the artists Cheikh Lô Orchestra Baobab and Pape and Cheikh.@JennyCathcart1

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