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http://www.smh.com.au/world/rebels-rip-music-and-with-it-the-heart-out-of-mali-20130116-2ctro.html Rebels rip music, and with it the heart, out of Mali Date January 17, 2013 Robin Denselow Silence is being enforced in a country where history is told in song. a.. Forced to flee … Tinariwen, a group from the nomadic Tuareg or Kel Tamashek people, whose families had televisions smashed for watching music shows. Photo: AFR NOWHERE does music have a greater social and political importance than in the vast desert state of Mali. It is shocking therefore that it has been banned across much of the two-thirds of Mali controlled by Islamist rebel groups. The director of the country's celebrated Festival in the Desert, which has now been forced out of the country, ''Manny'' Ansar, said: ''It's through our music that we know history and our own identity. Our elders gave us lessons through music. It's through music that we declare love and get married - and we criticise and make comments on the people around us.'' Oumou Sangare performs at the "Africa Standing Tall Against Poverty" concert. Photo: AP Malian musicians have become household names in the West, from the late Ali Farka Toure to the bravely experimental Rokia Traore, currently appearing at the Sydney Festival, to Tinariwen, which has performed with the Rolling Stones. There is the passionate social commentary of Oumou Sangare and the rousing, commercially successful African pop of Amadou & Mariam. And yet the Islamic rebel groups are trying to wipe out this ancient culture - and in the process have forced Malian musicians to examine the role they should now play. Ansar said he was ''ashamed at what has happened; and it was provoked by people who call themselves Muslims, like me''. At a censorship conference in Oslo, he said the militias were stopping the music ''to impose their authority, so there's nothing to threaten them''. The situation is particularly painful for musicians from the north of Mali, such as the band Tinariwen from the nomadic Tuareg or Kel Tamashek people. The rebellion has seen Islamist groups take over from the Tuareg nationalists of yesteryear, partly because the former nationalist leader Iyad Ag Ghali(whose songs were once covered by Tinariwen) has now taken up a more extreme form of Islam. When Tinariwen played in London last year, guitarist Eyadou Ag Leche said families had their televisions smashed for watching music shows, but music was still being played ''underground''. As for the Islamists, he said he ''didn't know where these people had come from''. In the capital Bamako, outside the rebel-controlled area, musicians face other problems. The world's leading ngoni player Bassekou Kouyate said musicians in the city were unable to work as clubs had been closed and public concerts postponed. ''The government is nervous and afraid of terrorist attacks on public gatherings,'' he said. He and his wife, the singer Amy Sacko, took part in a national television program, with Oumou Sangare, in which they ''sang against all forms of sharia law''. Guardian News & Media Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/rebels-rip-music-and-with-it-the-heart-out-of-mali-20130116-2ctro.html#ixzz2IAgtYSCT [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
