Playing with identities in contemporary music in Africa / edited by Mai Palmberg, Annemette Kirkegaard.

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TextPublication details: Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet in cooperation with The Sibelius Museum/Dept. of Musicology, Åbo Akademi University, Finland, 2002.Description: 182 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:

9789171064967

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Summary: The musics of Africa play a particularly important role in expressing and forming identities. This book brings together African and Nordic scholars from both musicology and other disciplines in an attempt to analyze various aspects of the complex playing with volatile identities in music in Africa today. Taken together the papers put new light on the assumed or real dichotomies between countryside and city, collective and individual, tradition and modernity, authentic and alien. The papers are based on contributions for a conference organized by the research project "Cultural images in and of Africa" and of the Nordic Africa Institute together with the Sibelius Musium/department of musicology and the centre for continuing education at Abo Akademi university in Abo (Turku), Finland in late 2000

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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 /

The musics of Africa play a particularly important role in expressing and forming identities. This book brings together African and Nordic scholars from both musicology and other disciplines in an attempt to analyze various aspects of the complex playing with volatile identities in music in Africa today. Taken together the papers put new light on the assumed or real dichotomies between countryside and city, collective and individual, tradition and modernity, authentic and alien. The papers are based on contributions for a conference organized by the research project "Cultural images in and of Africa" and of the Nordic Africa Institute together with the Sibelius Musium/department of musicology and the centre for continuing education at Abo Akademi university in Abo (Turku), Finland in late 2000

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