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Playing with identities in contemporary music in Africa

Author: Mai Palmberg; Annemette Kirkegaard
Publisher: Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet in cooperation with the Sibelius Museum/Dept. of Musicology, Åbo Akademi University, Finland, 2002.
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The musics of Africa play a particularly important role in expressing and forming identities.

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Mai Palmberg; Annemette Kirkegaard
ISBN: 9171064966 9789171064967
OCLC Number: 50841190
Description: 182 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction / Annemette Kirkegaard --
Big man, black president, masked one : models of the celebrity self in Yoruba popular music in Nigeria / Christopher Waterman --
"Modern traditional" music from Zimbabwe : Virginia Mukwesha's Mbira record "Matare" / Johannes Brusila --
"Tranzania" --
a cross-over from Norwegian techno to Tanzanian Taarab / Annemette Kirkegaard --
Generational factor in Ghanaian music : concert parties, highlife, simpa, kpanlogo, gospel, and local techno-pop / John Collins --
"Air of the city makes free" : urban music from the 1950s to the 1990s in Senegal --
variété, jazz, mbalax, rap / Ndiouga Adrien Benga --
Playing it "loud and straight" : reggae, zouglou, mapouka, and youth insubordination in Côte d'Ivoire / Simon Akindes --
Sounds of the "third way" : Zulu maskanda, South African popular traditional music / David B. Coplan --
Expressing Cape Verde : morna, funaná, and national identity / Mai Palmberg --
Gender, ethnicity, and politics in Kadongo-kamu music of Uganda : analysing the song Kayanda / Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza --
From mutant voices to rhythms of resistance music and minority identity among the Idoma and Ogoni in contemporary Nigeria / Jenks Z. Okwori --
Multipartyism, rivalry, and Taarab in Dar es Salaam / Siri Lange.
Responsibility: editors, Mai Palmberg, Annemette Kirkegaard.
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