| Series |
Routledge African studies ; 3
Routledge African studies ; 3. ^A1107808
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| 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. |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2011024753 |
| ISBN | 9780415888431 (hbk) |
| ISBN | 0415888433 (hbk) |
