Chansons contemporaines et crise écosystémique en Afrique subsaharienne
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The 21stcentury is essentially distinguished from previous ones by rapid successions of various crises, the most significant of which is undoubtedly that of the planetary ecological system (eco-system) at the heart of which is surely Human being, due to his ecocidal behaviours. These latter make him an antagonistic geophysical force that destroys the eco-systemic organization of which he is part and depends. The various environmental disasters in Africa and elsewhere are only symptomatic of this eco-systemic complex crisis from which sub-Saharan popular songs are inspired in order to reflect it aesthetically and raise awareness of ecological consciousness. A crisology of the eco-system, operationalized through discourse analysis, is outlined in this work from a precise corpus of ten of those songs highlighting the crisis complexity via various equally complex textual and audio-visual processes, while constituting itself as a contemporary pragmatic means of decrisification of the disorganized ecological system. KEYWORDS:Popular songs, eco-systemic crisis, crisology, complexity, ecological consciousness.
Source: Revue d'Etudes Africaines.
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4407942910