Elina Djebbari

Associate Professor

Paris Nanterre University

FR

Biografia

Elina Djebbari is an anthropologist and ethnomusicologist, associate professor at the University of Paris Nanterre. Her current research focuses on the bollo music dance genre (Côte d’Ivoire/Liberia) and its underlying dynamics of transatlantic circulations and creolization.

Artigos (2)

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The Creole Atlantic

How can cultural exchanges across the Atlantic be theorized outside of Gilroy’s Black Atlantic heuristic, especially when looking at cultural practices developing in Africa? The idea of a Creole Atlantic allows for including South-South connections and situating a redefined, creolized Africa at the core of the Atlantic paradigm.

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Musical Dialogues between Cuba and West Africa in the Cold War

In the middle of the 1960s in Cuba, young Malian musicians created the band Las Maravillas de Mali. The essay explores the political and musical transatlantic dialogues between Malian and Cuban musicians in the light of the cultural diplomatic exchanges initiated between Cuba and newly independent socialist African countries within the Cold War.