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Notes from Africa traces the rise of popular music on the continent beginning in the 1980s when the term world music was coined as a marketing label and African musicians, notably Youssou NDour and his contemporaries, began to appear on the international stage.

This book explains the musical styles that developed from the 1960s, when many African countries gained their independence. It covers developments in music and society in Senegal, in West Africa and around the continent during the post-independence years and right up to the present day. Jenny Cathcart, drawing on her personal experience in Senegal and her work alongside Youssou NDour, offers stories and portraits of daily life in Africa. The results are fresh insights into contemporary culture, religion and politics as well as future collaborations and developments not only on the continent but in the African diaspora too.

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About the Author When Jenny Cathcart travelled to Senegal in 1984 as a member - photo 1
About the Author When Jenny Cathcart travelled to Senegal in 1984 as a member - photo 2
About the Author

When Jenny Cathcart travelled to Senegal in 1984 as a member of the BBC TV film crew that produced The Africans , she met with the rising star Youssou NDour. It was a fateful meeting which led to her abiding interest in African music and culture. When the term world music was coined in London, Jenny was a producer on the pioneering TV series Rhythms of the World . In 1995, she proposed an African summer season on BBC Two and produced two of the programmes: the first ever African Prom and the documentary Africas Rock n Roll Years , a social and musical history of post-independence Africa. Ten years later, in 2005, she was series producer and director of BBC Fours six-part TV series, The African Rock n Roll Years . While working at Youssou NDours head office in Dakar, she managed the artists Cheikh L, Orchestra Baobab, and Pape and Cheikh.

I am pleased to dedicate this page to Ragnhild Ek, film-maker, music producer, communications expert and tireless worker for humanitarian causes who was keen to support the publication of Notes from Africa because of her love for African music.

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This edition first published in 2019

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All rights reserved
Jenny Cathcart, 2019

The right of Jenny Cathcart to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988. No part of this publication may be copied, reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

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ISBN 978-1-78965-048-8 (ebook)
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Text design, typesetting and eBook by Tetragon, London

In Memory of Fama Sow Cama

Super Patrons

Elizabeth Adam

Tim Arrowsmith

Erica Banks

Catherine Bate

Celine Bourdon-Ngo

Rob Bozas

Gordon Brand

Khoyane Cama

Helen Cathcart

Lilee Cathcart

Malcolm Cathcart

Rosemary Cathcart

Janie Crone

Kenneth Day

Paul Duhaney

Nicholas Gant

Izza Genini

Erik Gilbert

Simon Glinn

Nick Gold

Stuart Grice

Rob Hallett

Mark Hudson

Dan Kieran

Irene Kingston

Helen Lanigan Wood

Diana Lashmore

Dawn Lobb

Cyril Maguire

Marion Maxwell

Karim Mbaye

John Mitchinson

Youssou NDour

Patricia Neill

Iain Newton

Robert Pierce

Justin Pollard

Real World Records

Ewan Richmond

Rick Shain

Senga Sharkey

Jane Sparrow-Niang

Peter Stott

Betty Sweeney

Richard Trillo

Jean Trouillet

W.E. Vaughan

Patricia Wheatley

Heather White

Phil Windever

Hamiid Zagzoule

Contents
Preface
Youssou with the author I first travelled to Africa in 1984 as a researcher - photo 4

. Youssou with the author.

I first travelled to Africa in 1984 as a researcher for the BBC television series The Africans . In Senegal, Youssou NDour, the new pop idol, was already the subject of gossip, rumour and hype. Women loved him. Youngsters idolised him. You Do Nit , they would say, meaning Youssou is more than a human being!

I had been brought up in Ireland on Beethoven and the Beatles but was thoroughly mesmerised by what Peter Gabriel called the liquid velvet voice, the scintillating sabar drums, the kaleidoscopic charm of Youssous modern dance music. Furthermore, I was so taken with Senegal and the Senegalese that my BBC colleagues began to call the country Jenegal!

Youssou introduced me to African music just as a new musical phenomenon, termed world music, was beginning to emerge. He and I were to become close friends and collaborators in promoting his own international career as well as those of other stars from Senegal, including Cheikh L and Orchestra Baobab. As one of the leading and most charismatic figures in modern African music, Youssou was the perfect guide to what was for me a thrilling musical journey.

At the dawn of the new millennium, Youssou was named African Artist of the Century by fRoots magazine, and in 2007 Time listed him as one of the hundred most influential people in the world. He has appeared at high-profile concerts including Live Aid and the Free Nelson Mandela concert at Wembley. He took part in Amnesty Internationals Human Rights Now! world tour alongside Sting, Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen and Tracy Chapman. With Bono and Bob Geldof, he joined the ranks of those lobbying for debt relief for African countries. His collaborations with Peter Gabriel, Alicia Keys, Deep Forest, Annie Lennox, Ryuichi Sakamoto and others raised his global profile, and in 2005 he won a Grammy award for his album Egypt . In 2011 he received an honorary doctorate from Yale University and two years later, following in the footsteps of Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Miriam Makeba and other major artists, he was awarded the prestigious Polar Music Prize.

Having chosen to remain in Senegal, Youssou has succeeded as both an artist and a businessman. In 2010, when President Wade threatened to remain in power for a third term, Youssou entered politics and became a candidate in the 2012 presidential election. Though he failed in his bid, he succeeded in his aim of helping to remove President Wade and was appointed Minister of Culture, then Minister of Tourism and today retains a ministerial post as a special adviser to President Macky Sall.

As a television producer on the BBCs pioneering world music series Rhythms of the World , and as series producer of The African Rock n Roll Years , I had the opportunity to work with other great African stars like Ali Farka Tour, Baaba Maal, Salif Keita and the Guinean group Bembeya Jazz National. Youssou NDour provided a vital link to all of them.

In this book I cover the rise of world music and the role that African musicians have played in it, most particularly those from Senegal and West Africa but also leading names from around the continent. More generally, I explain the modern musical styles that have developed in Africa since the 1960s, when many countries gained independence from colonial rule. Stars like Franco and Papa Wemba (Congo), Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela and Abdullah Ibrahim (South Africa), Thomas Mapfumo (Zimbabwe), Anglique Kidjo and Wally Badarou (Benin), Manu Dibango (Cameroon), King Sunny Ade (Ghana) Fela Kuti (Nigeria) and Khaled (Algeria) blazed a trail for the next generation of talented musicians whose music reflects the exuberance and confidence of their emerging continent. The journey has been enchanting and enriching, the music mesmerising and memorable.

Jenny Cathcart
March 2019

Part I
Voyage of Discovery
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Dakar, Senegal
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