{"id":4028,"date":"2016-03-25T06:10:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T19:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=4028"},"modified":"2016-03-25T06:10:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T19:10:50","slug":"culture-is-our-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4028","title":{"rendered":"Culture is our fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"

“‘Culture is our petrol,’ says Toumani Diabat\u00e9, the Malian kora player who has collaborated with Damon Albarn and Bj\u00f6rk, to name but a few. ‘Music is our mineral wealth. There isn’t a single major music prize in the world today that hasn’t been won by a Malian artist.’<\/p>\n

‘Music regulates the life of every Malian’, adds Cheich Tidiane Seck, a prolific Malian musician and producer. ‘From the cradle to the grave. From ancient times right up to today. A Mali without music? No \u2026 I mean \u2026 give me another one!'”<\/p>\n

Andy Morgan, “Mali: no rhythm or reason as militants declare war on music”, The Guardian<\/em>, 23 October 2012. http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/oct\/23\/mali-militants-declare-war-music<\/a>. Accessed 5 April 2014.<\/p>\n

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“‘Culture is our petrol,’ says Toumani Diabat\u00e9, the Malian kora player who has collaborated with Damon Albarn and Bj\u00f6rk, to name but a few. ‘Music is our mineral wealth. There isn’t a single major music prize in the world today that hasn’t been won by a Malian artist.’ ‘Music regulates the life of every Malian’, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[716,715,714],"class_list":["post-4028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-purpose-of-the-arts","tag-mali","tag-militants-and-music","tag-music-and-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4029,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028\/revisions\/4029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}