Music Across Continents
Things with no place
How does this exist in spatial relation to other knowledge?
This arrangement is schematic. Distance and direction on this diagram carry no physical meaning — it shows how these things relate, not where they are. Nothing here is measured position, live telemetry or a simulation.
Programmes1
The organisation that flew the missions, across years.
Ideas and conditions33
Something with no place at all: a condition, a plan, an idea.
- Blues
- Highlife
- Jazz
- Samba
- Son cubano
- Akonting
- Banjo
- The West African drum ensemble
- Guitar
- Kora
- European lute
- Ngoni
- Oud
- Field recording
- The Kru seafarers
- Alan Lomax
- Tia Ciata (Hilária Batista de Almeida)
- W. C. Handy
- Ziryāb (Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Nāfiʿ)
- The Middle Passage
- Colonial prohibition of drumming
- The Great Migration
- Blackface minstrelsy and the taking of the banjo
- Race records
- Radio diffusion
- Andalusia and al-Andalus
- The Mississippi Delta
- West Africa
- The trans-Saharan routes
- Electrical recording
- Sound recording
- The Andalusi nūba
- Jaliya — the Mande hereditary musician tradition