Abstract: The status of the seereer woman occupies a non-negligible place in the musical production of Nicolas Ngor SARR. In “Ba Bolanaam o Loq” and “Xam Dakin a Tokol no Mbaar” Nicolas starts intelligently deconstructing the old discourse that entrapped the seereer woman in submissiveness, piety and purity as the top qualities of a good woman. He sings a new type of woman who refuses categorically to be beaten by her husband and sues for a divorce. Nicolas urges the seereer community to emancipate women by maintaining some cardinal values that the traditional seereer woman embodied. That is the reason why he celebrates mother by singing the soothing effect of motherhood in “Xam Dakin a Tokol no Mbaar”.
Keywords: Seereer, Women, Motherhood, emancipation, rebellion, soothing, tradition, modernity.
Title: THE SEEREER WOMAN IN THE MUSIC OF NICOLAS NGOR SARR; BA BOLANAAM O LOQ (2013) AND XAM DAKIN A TOKOL NO MBAAR (2013): BETWEEN TRADITION AND MODERNITY
Author: Dr. Diome FAYE
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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