Equally layered, however, is the complex response to these artists in France. Cultural interpreters at home and in Europe, these ethnographers write in sound, choosing carefully their subject, rhythm, delivery, and style, depending on their audience. They may choose between the traditional format of praise songs of the griots and more modern messages. Fully embracing a post-colonial and post-modern sensibility, their layered musical compositions include rap, reggae, blues, and jazz at the same time as they draw on traditional instruments, rhythms, themes, and melodies. West African musicians such as Baaba Maal and Youssou N'Dour of Senegal, Oumou Sangaré and Ali Farka Touré of Mali, have become known for their commitment to their constituencies back home, as well as for their appeal to non-African audiences.
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