Music, performance and African identities
By: edited by Toyin Falola and Tyler Fleming
Series: Routledge African studies -- 3; Routledge African studies -- 3.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Popular culture; Popular music; Music and state; History and criticism
Notes: "Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Inventing East African hip-hop : youth and musical convergence in East Africa; title: George Gathigi; title: 2. Rap, cartoon and rap cartoon : representations of the Maasai in contemporary Tanzanian popular culture / Katrina Daly Thompson; title: 3. An emulating beat : the Takiboronse effect in Burkina Faso popular culture / Batamaka Somé; title: Infectious beats : urban grooves music's collusion with the Zimbabwean state / Farai Wonderful Bere; title: 5. Popular culture in Senegal : blending the secular and the religious / Fallou Ngom; title: 6. Blackface in America and Africa : popular arts and diaspora consciousness in Cape Town and the Gold Coast / Benjamin Brühwiler; title: The South Africanization of Tanzanian Christian popular music / Mathayo B. Ndomondo; title: 8. Representations of Sophiatown in Kwaito music : Mafikizolo and musical memory / Xavier Livermon; title: 9. Stars of song and cinema : the impact of film on 1950s Johannesburg's black music scene / Tyler Fleming; title: 10. Performing and contesting modernity : Zimbabwean urban musicians and cultural self-constructions, 1930s-70s / Moses Chikowero; title: 11. Revisiting country music in Zimbabwe to reflect upon the history of the study of African popular culture / Jonathan Zilberg; title: 12. Things Fall Apart : what troubles hath hip hop in Kenya? / George Nyabuga; title: 13. Speaking the unspeakable through hiplife : a discursive construction of Ghanaian political discourse / Samuel Gyasi Obeng; title: 14. Popular music in Cape Verde : resistance or conciliation? / Juliana Braz Dias.