Bandiri Music, Globalization and Urban Experience in Nigeria

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Title:	Bandiri Music, Globalization and Urban Experience in Nigeria
Author:	Larkin, Brian
Year:	2002
Periodical:	Cahiers d'études africaines
Volume:	42
Issue:	168
Pages:	739-762
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Nigeria
Subjects:	Sufism singing popular music Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Architecture and the Arts Urbanization and Migration music
External link:	https://doi.org/10.4000/etudesafricaines.164
Abstract:	'Bandiri' is a musical genre performed by Sufi adepts in northern Nigeria who take popular Hindi film songs and change the words to sing praises to the Prophet Mohammed. In doing so they are involved in a complicated process of taking a profane genre and sacralizing it. The author argues that 'bandiri' is the result of the convergence in Kano, northern Nigeria, of three very different sorts of transnational cultural and religious networks: the long presence of Sufi brotherhoods in the north, the recent emergence of an anti-Sufi Islamist movement, and the continuing popularity of Indian films and songs. As an urban centre Kano is made up of overlapping sets of cultural, religious and economic networks that constitute its particular configuration. These networks create structural preconditions that provide the raw material from which urban experience might be fashioned. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract]