Comparatire Studies in African "Sound Culture"

这一研究项目旨在从社会文化背景和比较的角度，在“声音文化”的新概念下，研究非洲几个社会的声音传播。声音文化包括所谓的狭义音乐、口头语言和口头传统，以及通过器乐声音传递信息的各种系统，如在非洲广泛使用的“鼓语言”。为此，参与该项目的研究人员、文化人类学或音乐人类学专家在第一年就在突尼斯、摩洛哥、马里、尼日尔、布鲁基纳、布基纳法索、象牙海岸、加纳和赞比亚与这一领域的研究人员合作开展了实地工作。其中两位具有国际声誉的非洲研究人员，Oger Kabore博士(布基纳法索)和Mahaman Garba博士(尼日尔)为我们的集体报告贡献了他们的论文。在我们项目的第二年，利用实地研究的材料，参与者调查人员检查了他们对他们研究的广泛主题的分析，如突尼斯的Stambali仪式的声音文化，或阿比让街头文化中的雷鬼，用法语或英语写了一份集体报告，以便将我们的研究成果回馈给每个非洲国家的人民，同时收到来自世界该领域研究人员的批评和评论。因此，通过国际范围的思想交流，我们希望在这一新的“声音文化”概念的框架内发展和阐述研究。

This research project aims to study the sound communication in several societies of africa, in its socio-cultural context and in comparative perspective, under the new concept of "sound culture". The sound culture includes the so-called music in the narrow sense, spoken language and oral traditions, as well as various systems of transmission of message by means of instrumental sounds like "drum language", widely used in Africa.For this purpose, in the first year the investigators participating in this project, specialists of cultural anthropology or musical anthropology, carried out their field work in Tunisia, Morocco, Mali, Niger, Brukina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana and Zambia, in collaboration with researchers of this domain in each country. Two of these African researchers, of international fame, Dr.Oger kabore (Burkina Faso) and Dr.Mahaman Garba (Niger) contributed their paper to our collective report.In the second year of our project, with the materials of the field research, the participants investigators examined their analysis on widely varied subjects of their research, such as the sound culture of the Stambali rites in Tunisia, or the reggae in the street culture of Abidjan, wrote a collective report in French or in Enghlish, in order to give back the fruits of our research to the people of each African country, at the same time to receive critical remarks and comments from the researchers of this domain in the world. Thus, by the exchange of ideas of international scale, we wish to develop and elaborate the researches in the framwork of this new concept of "sound culture".