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    Let s make a record! Contemporary repertoires of the ngombi harp by Mitsogo artists in Gabon

    Authors
    Jadinon, R.
    Discipline
    Arts
    Subject
    Culture & Society
    Audience
    Scientific
    Date
    2024
    Publisher
    Four Courts Press
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    Description
    Everyone must find each other urged the harpist Monss in 2013 while we were recording his songs with artists from the village of Mokabo (Ngounié province, Gabon). In this collaboration, I was no more a musicologist who came to study a given repertoire, but a musical producer for a record that claimed to be a commercial success. Thank to this experience of field recording and the profile of the harpists involved in this project, I will describe the composition processes of the ngombi harp contemporary repertoires. I will approach the issue of musical creativity as the ability of musicians to mobilize musical knowledge orally transmitted in a way to mix it in their personal compositions and thus express the extent of their musical knowledge and their ability to vary them. I distinguish creativity from creation in musical composition. The latter is related to innovation while creativity is rather a combination of existing material. In the context of broadcasting of ngombi harp repertoires, the idea of find each other perfectly translates the musician's intention to please a large audience by anticipating expectations on his personal creativity but also his consciousness of the ritual uses that could be made with his recordings if they integrate the local digital market.
    Citation
    Jadinon, R. (2024). Let s make a record! Contemporary repertoires of the ngombi harp by Mitsogo artists in Gabon. , Harp Studies II: World Harp Traditions, Vol. 2, 366, Four Courts Press,
    Identifiers
    isbn: 978-1-84682-981-9
    uri: https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/13191
    Type
    Book chapter
    Peer-Review
    Yes
    Language
    eng
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