Performing the nation : Swahili music and cultural politics in Tanzania / Kelly M. Askew.

Author/creator Askew, Kelly Michelle
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Descriptionxviii, 417 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm + 1 CD (4 3/4 in.)
Subjects
Swahili-speaking peoples--Tanzania. --Music. --History and criticism.
Taarab--Tanzania. --History and criticism.
Taarab (Music)--Tanzania. --History and criticism.
Tanzania--Cultural policy.

SeriesChicago studies in ethnomusicology
Chicago studies in ethnomusicology. ^A261178
Contents Arts of governance -- Tanga, Tanganyika, Tanzania -- Of ginger ale and orange soda -- Weighty gestures, significant glances: taarab performance and the constitution of social relations -- Cultural revolution in Tanzania? -- Competing agendas: the production of Tanzanian national culture -- Of mwanyas and multipartyism: taarab performance and the Tanzanian state.
Contents Accompanying CD. Nimezama (I am drowning) -- Pendo Raha Yake (The joy oflove) -- Kitumbiri (Monkey) -- Mbuji ngoma -- Tanzania Yetu (Our Tanzania) -- Punda wa Tanga (Donkey of Tanga) -- Mwanya (Attractive gap between the front teeth) -- Aliyejaliwa (The favored one) -- Kumanya Mdigo (To know the Digo) -- Ngwinji (High-class prostitute) -- Nahodha (Captain).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 357-375), discography (pages 377-402), and indexes.
LCCN 2001008414
ISBN0226029808 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0226029816 (paperback : alk. paper)

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