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Overview: Gassire’s Lute reflects the Soninke heroic period of 500 BC. Yet the epic, of which this story is a part, comes from a period 1000 years later, (give or take a few centuries) during the growth and height of the Soninke empire of West Ghana.
Gabriela Santos Ponce IGE 121 29 February 2016 Reading Response: Gassire’s Lute Reading Gassire’s Lute was different than a lot of the other readings we have done this quarter. It was less of a religious text and more of a story. The book of Job is kind of similar in that Job is the story of a man’s test of faith and an explanation of why people suffer.
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A rousing tale of wars and heroes, Gassires Lute recounts the fall of the city-state Wagadu and tells how Gassire, warrior son of the ruling family, renounced his noble birth to become his peoples.
Summary. Lines 1-7. In the first verse the narrator calls upon the audience not to hold his lute responsible for the sound that it makes. The narrator explains that the lute is controlled by him, it has no independent thought and its voice is dictated by the player.
Gassire's Lute: A West African Epic. Essay aesthetic Agada anthropologist Bamako bardic art battle Bauman Austin Ben-Amos Benin Bronislaw Malinowski calabash guitar centuries chanted city-state Claude Meillassoux context cultural D'Azevedo Bloomington Diane Dillon discord dishonesty Epic in Africa epic poetry fame Fasa dynasty feats of.
Get this from a library! Gassire's lute: a West African epic. (Alta Jablow; Leo Dillon; Diane Dillon) -- An epic poem from the West African Sudan recounts the fall of the city-state of Wagadu due to a noble warrior's vanity and determination to become his people's first bard.