Music, Performance and African IdentitiesToyin Falola, Tyler Fleming 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. |
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Contemporary Music and Its Wider Social Impacts | |
Popular Arts and Diaspora | |
The South Africanization of Tanzanian Christian Popular Music | |
Mafikizolo and Musical | |
The Impact of Film on 1950s Johannesburgs | |
Zimbabwean Urban Musicians | |
Revisiting Country Music in Zimbabwe to Reflect Upon the History | |
What Troubles Hath HipHop in Kenya? | |
A Discursive Construction | |
Resistance or Conciliation? | |
Contributors | |
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