Music, Performance and African Identities (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Falola, Toyin; Fleming, Tyler

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136830273
• Artikelnr.: 38269447

Autorenporträt

Toyin Falola is the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in History and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Tyler Fleming is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History & Geography at the University of Texas at Austin.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Tyler Fleming and Toyin Falola Part One: Contemporary Music
and Its Wider Social Impacts 1. Inventing East African Hip-Hop: Youth and
Musical Convergence in East Africa George Gathigi 2. Rap, Cartoon and Rap
Cartoon: Representations of the Maasai in Contemporary Tanzanian Popular
Culture Katrina Daly Thompson 3. An Emulating Beat: The Takiboronse Effect
in Burkina Faso Popular Culture Batamaka Somé 4. Infectious Beats: Urban
Grooves Music's Collusion with the Zimbabwean State Farai Wonderful Bere
Part Two: Transnational Projections and Performances 5. Popular Culture in
Senegal: Blending the Secular and the Religious Fallou Ngom 6. Blackface in
America and Africa: Popular Arts and Diaspora Consciousness in Cape Town
and the Gold Coast Benjamin Brühwiler 7. The South Africanization of
Tanzanian Christian Popular Music Mathayo B. Ndomondo Part Three:
Historical Reflections on Music 8. Representations of Sophiatown in Kwaito
Music: Mafikizolo and Musical Memory Xavier Livermon 9. Stars of Song and
Cinema: The Impact of Film on 1950s Johannesburg's Black Music Scene Tyler
Fleming 10. Performing and Contesting Modernity: Zimbabwean Urban Musicians
and Cultural Self-Constructions, 1930s-70s Moses Chikowero 11. Revisiting
Country Music in Zimbabwe to Reflect Upon the History of the Study of
African Popular Culture Jonathan Zilberg Part Four: Cultural and Political
Meanings in African Music 12. Things Fall Apart: What Troubles Hath Hip Hop
In Kenya? George Nyabuga 13. Speaking the Unspeakable Through Hiplife: A
Discursive Construction of Ghanaian Political Discourse Samuel Gyasi Obeng
14. Popular Music in Cape Verde: Resistance or Conciliation? Juliana Braz
Dias