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Lectures in Musicology: Conversation with filmmaker Dani Kouyate and Ryan Skinner

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September 25, 2017
4:00PM - 5:30PM
18th Ave. Library, 175 W. 18th, Room 205

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Add to Calendar 2017-09-25 16:00:00 2017-09-25 17:30:00 Lectures in Musicology: Conversation with filmmaker Dani Kouyate and Ryan Skinner Conversation with filmmaker Dani Kouyaté and Professor Ryan Skinner: On the role and significance of music and sound in the cinematic oeuvre of Dani Kouyaté. Co-sponsored by the Global Mobility Project, Office of International Affairs, African American and African Studies, Comparative Studies, French and Italian, Ethnomusicology Program. For this lecture, filmmaker Dani Kouyaté and ethnomusicologist Ryan Skinner sit down to discuss the sonic and musical dimensions of the West African filmmaker’s cinematic work. Kouyaté was born into a family of Mande bards and storytellers (jeliw) and is the son the late Sotigi Kouyaté, a path-breaking actor and musician in West Africa. Kouyaté brings this dual cultural heritage—theatrical and bardic—to bear on his work in film, which is replete with the musical legacies of his complex—traditional and modern—artistic birthright. Skinner and Kouyaté will present several examples from Kouyaté’s cinematic oeuvre and discuss their content and significance, as sonic artifacts of particular films and in relation to the filmmaker’s status and identity as a “cinematic griot.” 18th Ave. Library, 175 W. 18th, Room 205 Center for African Studies cas@osu.edu America/New_York public

Conversation with filmmaker Dani Kouyaté and Professor Ryan Skinner: On the role and significance of music and sound in the cinematic oeuvre of Dani Kouyaté. Co-sponsored by the Global Mobility Project, Office of International Affairs, African American and African Studies, Comparative Studies, French and Italian, Ethnomusicology Program. For this lecture, filmmaker Dani Kouyaté and ethnomusicologist Ryan Skinner sit down to discuss the sonic and musical dimensions of the West African filmmaker’s cinematic work. Kouyaté was born into a family of Mande bards and storytellers (jeliw) and is the son the late Sotigi Kouyaté, a path-breaking actor and musician in West Africa. Kouyaté brings this dual cultural heritage—theatrical and bardic—to bear on his work in film, which is replete with the musical legacies of his complex—traditional and modern—artistic birthright. Skinner and Kouyaté will present several examples from Kouyaté’s cinematic oeuvre and discuss their content and significance, as sonic artifacts of particular films and in relation to the filmmaker’s status and identity as a “cinematic griot.”