Music in East Africa

Music in East Africa
Author: Gregory F. Barz
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2004
Genre: Music
ISBN:
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Music in East Africa is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case-study volumes, each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of departure, covering historical information and traditions as they relate to the present.

East African Hip Hop

East African Hip Hop
Author: Mwenda Ntarangwi
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2009
Genre: Adolescent psychology
ISBN: 0252076532
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Hip hop music that empowers and engages youth in East Africa

Ethnomusicology in East Africa

Ethnomusicology in East Africa
Author: Sylvia A. Nannyonga-Tamusuza
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2012
Genre: Music
ISBN: 997025135X
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"Ethnomusicology in East Africa ... brings together thinkers and artists from Uganda, East Africa and further afield to discuss an area of vital importance to Africans as a people. The book presents selected papers from the First International Symposium on Ethnomusicology in Uganda, held at Makerere University in Kampala on 23-25 November 2009 ... [and] represents an important step in the continued professionalisation of ethnomusicology in Uganda. It presents new work by Uganda-based researchers, from students to academic staff, and solidly places that work within the international scholarly ethnomusicological conversation"--Cover.

Mashindano!

Mashindano!
Author: Frank D. Gunderson
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2000
Genre: Music
ISBN:
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'Mashindano' - from Kiswahili, Kushindana (to compete) - is a generic term for any organised competitive event. Here it relates to popular entertainment activities within which cultural groups competing for recognition by their communities, as leaders in their fields. Nineteen leading scholars contribute new studies on this little researched area, making a long overdue contribution to musical scholarship in East Africa, with a focus on Tanzania. The authors address key questions: What are the various roles played by competitive pratices in musical contexts? How do music competitions act as mechanisms of innovation? How do music competitions act as mechanisms of innovation? How do they serve their communities in identity formation? And what, specifically, do competitive music practices communicate, and to whom? Local dance contests, choir competitions, popular entertainment, song duels, and sporting events are all described. Work is drawn from ethnomusicology, history, musicology, anthropology, folklore, and literary, post-colonial, and performance studies.

Music, Performance and African Identities

Music, Performance and African Identities
Author: Toyin Falola
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2012-03-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1136830286
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Cutting across countries, genres, and time periods, this volume explores topics ranging from hip hop’s influence on Maasai identity in current day Tanzania to jazz in Bulawayo during the interwar years, using music to tell a larger story about the cultures and societies of Africa.

Playing with Identities in Contemporary Music in Africa

Playing with Identities in Contemporary Music in Africa
Author: Annemette Kirkegaard
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2002
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9789171064967
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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 analyse 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†of the Nordic Africa Institute together with the Sibelius Museum/Department of Musicology and the Centre for Continuing Education at Ã...bo Akademi University in Ã...bo (Turku), Finland in October 2000. The book includes a keynote speech by Christopher Waterman (UCLA), and an introduction by Annemette Kirkegaard, Copenhagen University. Southern, West and East Africa are represented in the studies, which cover a great variety of musics.

Songs and Politics in Eastern Africa

Songs and Politics in Eastern Africa
Author: Kimani Njogu
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2007-10-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9987081088
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Songs and Politics in Eastern Africa brings together important essays on songs and politics in the region and beyond. Through an analysis of the voices from the margins, the authors (contributors) enter into the debate on cultural productions and political change. The theme that cuts across the contributions is that songs are, in addition to their aesthetic appeal, vital tools for exploring how political and social events are shaped and understood by citizens. Urbanization, commercialization and globalization contributed to the vibrancy of East African popular music of the 1990s which was marked by hybridity, syncretism and innovativeness. It was a product of social processes inseparable from society, politics, and other critical issues of the day. The lyrics explored socials cosmology, worldviews, class and gender relations, interpretations of value systems, and other political, social and cultural practices, even as they entertained and provided momentary escape for audience members. Frustration, disenchantments, and emotional fatigue resulting from corrupt and dictatorial political systems that stifle the potential of citizens drove and still drive popular music in Eastern Africa as in most of Africa. Songs and Politics in Eastern Africa is an important addition to the study of popular culture and its role in shaping society.

Rhythms of Resistance

Rhythms of Resistance
Author: Peter Fryer
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2000-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780819564184
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"First published in 2000 by Pluto Press, London, England"--T.p. verso.

Music and Messaging in the African Political Arena

Music and Messaging in the African Political Arena
Author: Onyebadi, Uche T.
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2019-01-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1522572961
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Political campaigning affects numerous realms under the communication umbrella with each channel seeking to influence as many individuals as possible. In higher education, there is a growing scholarly interest in communication issues and subjects, especially on the role of music, in the political arena. Music and Messaging in the African Political Arena provides innovative insights into providing music and songs as an integral part of sending political messages to a broader spectrum of audiences, especially during political campaigns. The content within this publication covers such topics as framing theory, national identity, and ethnic politics, and is designed for politicians, campaign managers, political communication scholars, researchers, and students.

Music in West Africa

Music in West Africa
Author: Ruth M. Stone
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2005
Genre: Music
ISBN:
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This book introduces the musical traditions of West Africa and discusses the diversity, motifs, and structure of West African music within the larger patterns of the region's culture.