| Description |
ix, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Routledge African studies ; 3
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Routledge African studies ; 3.
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| Note |
"Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Popular music -- Africa -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Popular music. |
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Africa. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Popular music -- Social aspects -- Africa.
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Popular music -- Social aspects. |
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Popular music -- Political aspects -- Africa.
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Popular music -- Political aspects. |
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Popular culture -- Africa.
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Popular culture. |
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Music and state -- Africa.
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Music and state. |
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Black people -- Race identity -- Africa.
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Black people -- Race identity. |
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Africa -- Social conditions -- 1960-
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
1960- |
| Added Author |
Falola, Toyin.
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Fleming, Tyler.
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| ISBN |
9780415888431 hardback |
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0415888433 hardback |
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