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For centuries, griots have dominated the musical traditions of West African cultures, combining the professional skills of poets, instrumentalists, singers, and mediators. With colonial conquest and the subsequent independence of modern nation-states in Africa, these traditional lyricists faced the challenge of adapting to a rapidly changing socio-political environment – a challenge their children and children’s children have successfully mastered today, as this chapter will show.
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This page is a summary of: 2829Jeliya goes Spotify: From Griot Oral Traditions to Multimodal Representations of Contemporary West African Music and Languages, June 2025, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/9783112213070-002.
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