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Politz, Sarah
Ethnomusicology, 01/2018, Letnik: 62, Številka: 1Journal Article
The Gangbé Brass Band song “Alladanou” makes specific historical, linguistic, and musical references to Benin’s precolonial, colonial, and postindependence histories. I use these references as a point of departure in exploring the relationship of the song to the royal court style of adjògàn. I consider how the Cameroonian political theorist Achille Mbembe’s framework of multiple temporalities illuminates the historical flexibility at play in Gangbé’s album Togbé. I conclude by proposing an analytical framework for analyzing “Alladanou” that proceeds from an interest in audience, relationality, the Fon concept of gbè (voice or sound), and resonance.
