Playing with identities in contemporary music in Africa.

Playing with identities in contemporary music in Africa. - 182 p.

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 comtemporary Nigeria / Jenks Z. Okwori -- Multipartyism, rivalry, and Taarab in Dar es Salaam / Siri Lange.

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Music--History and criticism--Africa
Nationalism in music
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