Bajourou (meaning 'big strings' or 'big tune') is the name given to a strain of Malian (

Mali Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali ...

) pop music usually played at weddings and social gatherings. Though now predominantly electric, its roots were in 60s acoustic music that borrowed patterns from the kora and the donsongoni (a hunting harp/guitar) and transferred them to acoustic guitars. Lyrics moved away from the usual Manding praise songs to more secular, romantic concerns, mainly sung by women like

Fanta Sacko Fanta Sacko is a Malian musician, whose debut, self-titled LP launched the bajourou music genre A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions. It is to ...

who did much to develop and spread the music.

Bibliography

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Press. *Coelho, Victor (2003). ''The Cambridge Companion to Music''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. *Conrad, David (2001). '' Somono Bala of the Upper Niger''. Leiden: BRILL. *Eyre, Banning (2000). ''In Griot Time: An American Guitarist in Mali''. Philadelphia:

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Press.

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