Journey of song
Subtitle: public life and morality in Cameroon
By: Clare A. Ignatowski.
Series: African expressive cultures
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bloomington, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Tupuri (African people) -- Cameroon -- Social life and customs.; Cameroon -- Social conditions -- 1960-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Maïtené's modern life : song as negotiation of public morality; title: "Better than family, better than girls" : the Tupuri Gurna Society; title: Defying the modern : play of identities in Gurna dance exhortation ([b,hooked][o]'ge f[o]g[e]); title: "Telephone of the dance" : circulation of Gurna song discourse; title: "Rise up, gather like storm clouds" : poetics of Gurna song (si[ng] gurna); title: "I become your boy" : power, legitimacy and magic in song composition; title: Staging conflict through insult : competing systems of justice; title: Multipartyism and nostalgia for the unified past : discourses of democracy in Gurna politics; title: Conclusion.