PLAYING WITH IDENTITIES IN CONTEMPORARY MUSIC IN AFRICA

by Palmberg, Mai, and Annemette Kirkegaard, eds

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Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2002 182 pp. Illustrations, maps, footnotes, references, list of contributors. This collection of eleven scholarly articles examines the way music expresses identity in modern Africa, addressing the perceived dichotomies between rural and urban, collective and individual, tradition and modernity, authentic and alien. The papers are based on contributions to a conference held in Abo (Turku), Finland, 2000. CONTENTS: Introduction [Annemette Kirkegaard]. 1) Big man, black president, masked one: models of the celebrity self in Yoruba popular music in Nigeria [Christopher Waterman]. 2) "Modern traditional" music from Zimbabwe: Virginia Mukwesha's Mbira record "Matare" [Johannes Brusila]. 3) "Tranzania": a cross-over from Norwegian techno to Tanzanian taarab [Annemette Kierkegaard]. 4) The generational factor in Ghanaian music: concert parties, highlife, simpa, kpanlogo, gospel and local techno-pop [John Collins]. 5) "The air of the city makes free": urban music from the 1950s to the 1990s in Senegal: variete, jazz, mbalax, rap [Ndiouga Adrien Benga]. 6) Playing it "loud and straight": reggae, zouglou, mapouka and youth insubordination in Cote d'Ivoire [Simon Akindes]. 7) Sounds of the "third way": Zulu mazkanda, South African popular traditional music [David B. Coplan]. 8) Expressing Cape Verde: morna, funana and national identity [Mai Palmberg]. 9) Gender, ethnicity and politics in kadongo-kamu music of Uganda: analysing the song kayanda [Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza]. 10) From mutant voices to rhythms of resistance: music and minority identity among the Idoma and Ogoni in contemporary Nigeria [Jenks Z. Okwori]. 11) Multipartyism, rivalry and taarab in Dar es Salaam [Siri Lange]. CONDITION: Virtually as new, with very minor handling wear only.. First Edition. Paperback. Like New. 25 x 17 cm.

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