Heritage and Transformation of an African Popular Music [Paperback]

The heritage in popular music, between entertainment and popular intellectuality, is the product of a process of continual transformation.Modern popular music is closely linked to the 'traditional' heritage  intangible and material  of which artist-musicians have, in a way, usufruct. This Element examines the relationship between (cultural) heritage and the transformation of popular music in C?te d'Ivoire.Modern popular music is closely linked to the 'traditional' heritage  intangible and material  of which artist-musicians have, in a way, usufruct. This Element examines the relationship between (cultural) heritage and the transformation of popular music in C?te d'Ivoire.Modern popular music is closely linked to the 'traditional' heritage  intangible and material  of which artist-musicians have, in a way, usufruct. This Element examines the relationship between (cultural) heritage and the transformation of popular music in C?te d'Ivoire. It views heritage from a dynamic and innovative perspective as a constantly evolving reality, informed by a multitude of encounters, both local and global. It frees itself from the sectoralization and disciplinary impermeability of the sector  in places of music performance to understand how the artistic-musical heritage is transmitted, imagined and managed and the complex process of transformation of popular music in which it registers. It appears that heritage, far from being frozen in time, is rather activated, deactivated and reactivated according to the creative imagination. In addition, the work highlights a minor aspect of the heritage subsumed in popular intellectuality at work in popular music.1. Popular music in the colony; 2. The development of (and by) popular music; 3. The musicscape of the multiparty years; 4. Poetics of musical art in Abidjan; 5. Tribality and network logic; 6. Music creation and technology; 7. Professionalisation or the search for 'gombos'?; 8. Between entertainment and popular intellectualityl³@