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Titre Musique et structures sociales (Sociétés d'Afrique Noire)
Auteur André Schaeffner
Mir@bel Revue Revue Française de Sociologie
Numéro 1962, 3-4
Rubrique / Thématique
Colloque sur la musique
Page 388-395
Résumé anglais André Schaeffner : Music and social structures (Societies of Tropical Africa). In African societies, different instruments or orchestras are exclusively reserved for one sex, one special ritual, a religious or political leader, a circumciser or secret societies. A ritual essential to the existence of a society reproduces the society's structure as well as his history. Among the Kissi, apart from physical tests, the initiation appears to be a purely aesthetic apprenticeship ; music integrates each member and indicates his function in society. There is the closest possible link between music and citizenship.
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