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Reclaiming Josephine Baker in the Filmic Ethnomusicology of Djibril Diop Mambéty
- Music and the Moving Image
- University of Illinois Press
- Volume 12, Issue 2, Summer 2019
- pp. 3-14
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Abstract:
This paper proposes an ethnomusicological approach to Djibril Diop Mambéty’s films as a means of reading their diverse musical soundscapes. Paying particular attention to Touki Bouki (1974), it demonstrates how this approach delineates what may be seen as a reclamation of Josephine Baker—an international figure who has been objectified for her race and gender—resituating her within a wider global African cultural heritage.