Introduction
Maïtené's modern life : song as negotiation of public morality
"Better than family, better than girls" : the Tupuri Gurna Society
Defying the modern : play of identities in Gurna dance exhortation ([b,hooked][o]'ge f[o]g[e])
"Telephone of the dance" : circulation of Gurna song discourse
"Rise up, gather like storm clouds" : poetics of Gurna song (si[ng] gurna)
"I become your boy" : power, legitimacy and magic in song composition
Staging conflict through insult : competing systems of justice
Multipartyism and nostalgia for the unified past : discourses of democracy in Gurna politics
Conclusion.