Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: New Perspectives on Women's Songs and Singing in West Africa -- 1 - Wolof Women Break the Taboo of Sex through Songs -- 2 - Jola Kanyalen Songs from the Casamance, Senegal: From "Tradition" to Globalization -- 3 - Azna Deities in the Songs of Taguimba Bouzou: A Window on the Visible and Invisible -- 4 - Initiation and Funeral Songs from the Guro of Côte d'Ivoire -- 5 - Praise Performances by Jalimusolu in the Gambia -- 6 - Saharan Music: About a Feminine Modernity -- 7 - Songs by Wolof Women -- 8 - A Heroic Performance by Siramori Diabaté in Mali -- 9 - Women's Tattooing Songs from Kajoor, Senegal -- 10 - Drummed Poems by Songhay-Zarma Women of Niger -- 11 - Space, Language, and Identity in the Palm Tree -- 12 - Bambara Women's Songs in Southern Mali -- 13 - Patriarchy in Songs and Poetry by Zarma Women -- 14 - Muslim Hausa Women's Songs -- 15 - Lamentation and Politics in a Sahelian Song -- 16 - Transformations in Tuareg Tende Singing: Women's Voices and Local Feminisms -- 17 - Income Strategies of a Jelimuso in Mali and France -- Index -- Contributors.