Music, performance and African identities / edited by Toyin Falola and Tyler Fleming.
| Uniform Title: | Routledge African studies ;
3. |
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2012.
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| Series: | Routledge African studies ;
3. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- 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
- Infectious beats : urban grooves music's collusion with the Zimbabwean state / Farai Wonderful Bere
- 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
- The South Africanization of Tanzanian Christian popular music / Mathayo B. Ndomondo
- 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
- 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.