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A compelling examination of Sweden's African and Black diaspora
Contemporary Sweden is a country with a worldwide progressive
reputation, despite an undeniable tradition of racism within its
borders. In the face of this contradiction of culture and history,
Afro-Swedes have emerged as a vibrant demographic presence, from
generations of diasporic movement, migration, and homemaking. In
Afro-Sweden, Ryan Thomas Skinner uses oral histories, archival
research, ethnography, and textual analysis to explore the history
and culture of this diverse and growing Afro-European community.
Skinner employs the conceptual themes of "remembering" and
"renaissance" to illuminate the history and culture of the
Afro-Swedish community, drawing on the rich theoretical traditions
of the African and Black diaspora. Remembering fosters a sustained
meditation on Afro-Swedish social history, while Renaissance
indexes a thriving Afro-Swedish public culture. Together, these
concepts illuminate significant existential modes of Afro-Swedish
being and becoming, invested in and contributing to the work of
global Black studies. The first scholarly monograph in English to
focus specifically on the African and Black diaspora in Sweden,
Afro-Sweden emphasizes the voices, experiences, practices,
knowledge, and ideas of these communities. Its rigorously
interdisciplinary approach to understanding diasporic communities
is essential to contemporary conversations around such issues as
the status and identity of racialized populations in Europe and the
international impact of Black Lives Matter.
A compelling examination of Sweden's African and Black diaspora
Contemporary Sweden is a country with a worldwide progressive
reputation, despite an undeniable tradition of racism within its
borders. In the face of this contradiction of culture and history,
Afro-Swedes have emerged as a vibrant demographic presence, from
generations of diasporic movement, migration, and homemaking. In
Afro-Sweden, Ryan Thomas Skinner uses oral histories, archival
research, ethnography, and textual analysis to explore the history
and culture of this diverse and growing Afro-European community.
Skinner employs the conceptual themes of "remembering" and
"renaissance" to illuminate the history and culture of the
Afro-Swedish community, drawing on the rich theoretical traditions
of the African and Black diaspora. Remembering fosters a sustained
meditation on Afro-Swedish social history, while Renaissance
indexes a thriving Afro-Swedish public culture. Together, these
concepts illuminate significant existential modes of Afro-Swedish
being and becoming, invested in and contributing to the work of
global Black studies. The first scholarly monograph in English to
focus specifically on the African and Black diaspora in Sweden,
Afro-Sweden emphasizes the voices, experiences, practices,
knowledge, and ideas of these communities. Its rigorously
interdisciplinary approach to understanding diasporic communities
is essential to contemporary conversations around such issues as
the status and identity of racialized populations in Europe and the
international impact of Black Lives Matter.
Bamako Sounds tells the story of an African city, its people, their
values, and their music. Centered on the music and musicians of
Bamako, Mali’s booming capital city, this book reveals a
community of artists whose lives and works evince a complex world
shaped by urban culture, postcolonialism, musical expression,
religious identity, and intellectual property. Drawing on years of
ethnographic research with classically trained players of the kora
(a twenty-one-string West African harp) as well as more
contemporary, hip-hop influenced musicians and producers, Ryan
Thomas Skinner analyzes how Bamako artists balance social
imperatives with personal interests and global imaginations.
Whether performed live on stage, broadcast on the radio, or shared
over the Internet, music is a privileged mode of expression that
suffuses Bamako’s urban soundscape. It animates professional
projects, communicates cultural values, pronounces public piety,
resounds in the marketplace, and quite literally performs the
nation. Music, the artists who make it, and the audiences who
interpret it thus represent a crucial means of articulating and
disseminating the ethics and aesthetics of a varied and vital
Afropolitanism, in Bamako and beyond.
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