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

Publication Info.	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2002]
	©2002

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Description	xviii, 417 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Physical Medium	4 3/4 in.
Description	1.4 m/s
	digital recording
Series	Chicago studies in ethnomusicology
	Chicago studies in ethnomusicology.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-375), discography (pages 377-402), and indexes.
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 -- Conclusion : cultural policy by and for the people.
Subject	Swahili-speaking peoples -- Tanzania -- Music -- History and criticism.
	Swahili-speaking peoples.
	Tanzania.
	Music.
	Tanzania -- Cultural policy.
	Cultural policy.
	Taarab (Music) -- Tanzania -- History and criticism.
	Taarab (Music)
	Dance -- Tanzania.
	Dance.
Genre/Form	Sound recordings.
	Sound recordings.
ISBN	0226029808 hardcover alkaline paper
	0226029816 paperback alkaline paper