Playing with Identities in Contemporary Music in AfricaThe 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. |
Contents
Foreword | 5 |
Christopher Waterman | 19 |
Johannes Brusila | 35 |
John Collins | 60 |
Ndiouga Adrien Benga | 75 |
David B Coplan | 104 |
Mai Palmberg | 117 |
Sylvia NannyongaTamusuza | 134 |
Common terms and phrases
Abidjan African music African Popular Afro-beat album Alpha Blondy artists audience Audiocassette Baganda bands Baulé Cape Verde celebrity Chenga Chicago Collins colonial composer concept contemporary Coplan Côte d'Ivoire cultural identity cultural troupes Dakar dance Dar es Salaam drums Erlmann ethnic groups Ethnomusicology Fela French fújì funaná gender genres Ghana Ghanaian global guitar highlife Idoma Idoma and Ogoni instruments interview Ivorian jazz Kayanda Kiganda Kirkegaard kpanlogo Kriolu Lágbájá language mapouka maskanda Matare mbalax mbira means modern morna Mugole Mukaabya Mukwesha Museveni music culture music industry musical styles musicians Muungano ngoma Nigeria Ogoni performance play political popular music Press production radio reggae rhythms rituals role rural Salaam Senegal Senegalese Shona sing singer social society sound South Africa taarab Tanzania tion traditional music Uganda University Waterman West Africa Western women World Music Yoruba young youth Zanzibar zouglou Zulu