Mariam Goshadze

The Noise Silence Makes

Secularity and Ghana's Drum Wars

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Produktbeschreibung

Mariam Goshadze traces the history of noise regulation in Accra, Ghana, showing how the 1990s and 2000s conflicts between the Ga people and Pentecostal/Charismatic churches during the annual city-wide ban on drumming illuminates the innerworkings of Ghanaian secularity and the importance of “traditional religions” to African urbanity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781478028192
• ISBN-10: 147802819X
• Artikelnr.: 71208826

Autorenporträt

Mariam Goshadze

Inhaltsangabe

A Note on Orthography  ix A Note on Pronunciation  xi Introduction: Altered Ontologies and Reversed Paradigms  1 1. Jumping on the Anti-Noise Bandwagon: Drumming Permits for Accra’s Residents  25 2. Winds of Change: The Ban on Drumming Enters the Public Sphere  46 3. The Power of Sound: Cross-World Sonic Theologies  69 4. When the Deities Visit: Translating Religion into the Language of the Secular  87 5. Sacred Acoustic Inspectors: The Ghanian State and Noise Abatement during the H
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Festival  108 6. Let US Offer Thanks for the Nation of Ghana: H
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as a Civil Ceremony of Thanksgiving  133 Conclusion: Layered Epistemologies of Contemporary Accra  153 Acknowledgments  159 Glossary  161 Notes  163 References  177 Index  193