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dc.contributor.advisorLambrecht, S.
dc.contributor.authorCival, N.
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-14T17:00:26Z
dc.date.available2019-08-14T17:00:26Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.urihttps://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/33425
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis, I follow cultural and Western theoretical methodologies used in the literature on traditional African rhythms to find and analyse the main rhythmical and cultural characteristics of maloya. Maloya is a music style that originates from La Réunion, a French colony in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Maloya plays an important role as political identification for the creole community in a performative way. The rhythm is a main ingredient for dancing and collaborate participating in music and is therefore important for maloya as a cultural performative identity. In a Western theoretical framework, the maloya shuffle would fit somewhere between a binary and a ternary meter, with an unequal note length and an accented afterbeat. In a strict divisive Western analysis, the rhythm could be counted in quintuplets and thus in a 5/8 meter with a hemiola. Although a 5/8 rhythm does not occur in African music, there are main African rhythmic key-patterns that show off-centeredness, hemiola’s and other complex rhythmic structures as well as in music styles that derive from African music like many South-American rhythms. Cultural and historical theory shows that maloya should be counted in a 12/8 meter. The ternary 12/8 meter is much more common in African music than a binary rhythm. The slave trade history and similarities in the musical performance show a strong connection between these two cultures. Looking at the motions in dance and playing maloya instruments shows that a maloya musician feels the rhythm in a 12/8 meter.
dc.description.sponsorshipUtrecht University
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dc.language.isoen
dc.titleThe Maloya Shuffle - A Rhythmical Analysis of Maloya
dc.type.contentMaster Thesis
dc.rights.accessrightsOpen Access
dc.subject.keywordsMaloya, rhythm, Africa, La Reunion, Creole, Music, Bell Pattern, Polyrhythm, Performance, Percussion, Dance, Analysis, Shuffle, Culture, Practice, France, Indian Ocean, Music Theory, Hemiola, Clave, Samba, Slave,
dc.subject.courseuuApplied Musicology


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