Money Trouble in an African Art World: Copyright, Piracy, and the Politics of Culture in Postcolonial Mali

In this essay, I present a genealogy of copyright and its criminalized corollary, piracy, through an emergent politics of culture in Mali, West Africa, over the past half–century. Emphasizing the production, circulation, and performance of music, this history reveals the longstanding, though steadil...

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Main Author: Ryan Thomas Skinner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Association for the Study of Popular Music 2013-01-01
Series:IASPM Journal
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Online Access:https://iaspmjournal.net/index.php/IASPM_Journal/article/view/595/pdf_3