Jan Jansen : Kumabali Ye Horon Di' (The Person Who Doesn't Speak Is Free) - On the social construction of copy rights

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Description: Based on observations during years of fieldwork in Manding dating back to 1988, this presentation analyses a recording of one person as a group or team performance. I will show how those not involved in the actual recording position themselves in order to have a claim on the recording. The argument is demonstrated with a video recording (of themes from the Sunjata epic, recited by a person officially inaugurated as the ‘Master of the Word’ of his family) made in Kela (Mali), January 2007, recently published as Volume 3 in the Verba Africana series. I argue that these ‘overlooked’ aspects are epistemological challenges to what academics generally present as oral tradition.
 
Created: 2011-03-22 14:21
Collection: World Oral Literature Project Workshop 2010
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Copyright: World Oral Literature Project
Language: eng (English)
Keywords: mandang; kela; verba africana; copy right;
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Actor:  Jan Jansen
Editor:  Glenn Jobson
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