ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|61 pages
Contemporary Music and Its Wider Social Impacts
chapter 2|13 pages
Rap, Cartoon and Rap Cartoon
Representations of the Maasai in Contemporary Tanzanian Popular Culture
part II|71 pages
Transnational Projections and Performances
chapter 6|19 pages
Blackface in America and Africa
Popular Arts and Diaspora Consciousness in Cape Town and the Gold Coast
part III|113 pages
Historical Reflections on Music
chapter 9|22 pages
Stars of Song and Cinema
The Impact of Film on 1950s Johannesburg's Black Music Scene
chapter 10|36 pages
Performing and Contesting Modernity
Zimbabwean Urban Musicians and Cultural Self-Constructions, 1930s-1970s
part IV|48 pages
Cultural and Political Meanings in African Music
chapter 13|20 pages
Speaking the Unspeakable Through Hiplife
A Discursive Construction of Ghanaian Political Discourse
