ISBN:
0415888433
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9780415888431
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9781136830280
Language:
English
Pages:
ix, 346 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge African Studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Music, Performance and African Identities
DDC:
306.4/84096
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
Cutting across countries, genres, and time periods, this volume explores topics ranging from hip hop's influence on Maasai identity in current day Tanzania to jazz in Bulawayo during the interwar years, using music to tell a larger story about the cultures and societies of Africa
Description / Table of Contents:
Music, Performance and African Identities; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; I Contemporary Music and Its Wider Social Impacts; 1 Inventing East African Hip-Hop: Youth and Musical Convergence in East Africa; 2 Rap, Cartoon and Rap Cartoon: Representations of the Maasai in Contemporary Tanzanian Popular Culture; 3 An Emulating Beat: The Takiboronse Effect in Burkina Faso Popular Culture; 4 Infectious Beats: Urban Grooves Music's Collusion with the Zimbabwean State; II Transnational Projections and Performances; 5 Popular Culture in Senegal: Blending the Secular and the Religious
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Blackface in America and Africa: Popular Arts and Diaspora Consciousness in Cape Town and the Gold Coast7 The South Africanization of Tanzanian Christian Popular Music; III Historical Reflections on Music; 8 Representations of Sophiatown in Kwaito Music: Mafikizolo and Musical Memory; 9 Stars of Song and Cinema: The Impact of Film on 1950s Johannesburg's Black Music Scene; 10 Performing and Contesting Modernity: Zimbabwean Urban Musicians and Cultural Self-Constructions, 1930s-1970s; 11 Revisiting Country Music in Zimbabwe to Reflect Upon the History of the Study of African Popular Culture
Description / Table of Contents:
IV Cultural and Political Meanings in African Music12 Things Fall Apart: What Troubles Hath Hip-Hop In Kenya?; 13 Speaking the Unspeakable Through Hiplife: A Discursive Construction of Ghanaian Political Discourse; 14 Popular Music in Cape Verde: Resistance or Conciliation?; Contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Available via World Wide Web
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