Jon Silpayamanant (โจนาทาน ศิลปยามานันท์)| Mae Mai
3 Dec,
7 tweets, 3 min read
If I have to read another essentialist description of West African music being drumming music, it will be too soon.
https://twitter.com/Silpayamanant/status/1322360301833101312
Dr. Jacqueline C. DjeDje says a lot about how Black music in the US has been erroneously essentialized as coming from West African drumming. Since her work focuses on West African fiddling and African American fiddling, probably good to listen to her.
signifyingscriptures.org/an-interview-w…
signifyingscriptures.org/an-interview-w…
from her "The (Mis)Representation of African American Music: The Role of the Fiddle"
"I demonstrate how the misrepresentation of black fiddling ... has greatly impacted our understanding of both black and white musicking in the United States."
doi.org/10.1017/S17521…
"I demonstrate how the misrepresentation of black fiddling ... has greatly impacted our understanding of both black and white musicking in the United States."
doi.org/10.1017/S17521…
Sylviane A. Diouf, another Black scholar who researches the African diaspora and slave trades, and is the author of "Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas" also makes the connection between string playing, Islam, and the Blues.
renovatio.zaytuna.edu/article/what-i…
renovatio.zaytuna.edu/article/what-i…
So maybe this isn't the best thing to say as a yt music educator working in Afrodiasporic musics/culture. 
Dr. DjeDje's words here are almost prophetic in the context of yt people discussing Black music and culture without engaging with Black scholarship about Black music and culture.
signifyingscriptures.org/an-interview-w…
signifyingscriptures.org/an-interview-w…
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