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Format: Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk: Engelska
Serie: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology CSE
Antal sidor: 392
Utgivningsdatum: 2002-07-28
Förlag: The University of Chicago Press
Dimensioner: 230 x 150 x 25 mm
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ISBN: 9780226029818

Performing the Nation

Name: Performing the Nation
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Author: Kelly Askew, Kelly Askew
ISBN: 9780226029818

Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania

av Kelly Askew, Kelly Askew

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002-07-28

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Since its founding in 1964, the United Republic of Tanzania has used music, dance, and other cultural productions as ways of imagining and legitimizing the new nation. Focusing on the politics surrounding Swahili musical performance, Kelly Askew demonstrates the crucial role of popular culture in Tanzania's colonial and postcolonial history. As Askew shows, the genres of ngoma (traditional dance), dansi (urban jazz), and taarab (sung Swahili poetry) have played prominent parts in official articulations of "Tanzanian National Culture" over the years. Drawing on over a decade of research, including extensive experience as a taarab and dansi performer, Askew explores the intimate relations among musical practice, political ideology, and economic change. She reveals the processes and agents involved in the creation of Tanzania's national culture, from government elites to local musicians, poets, wedding participants, and traffic police. Throughout, Askew focuses on performance itself - musical and otherwise - as key to understanding both state formation and interpersonal power dynamics.

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Kelly Askew is assistant professor of anthropology and of Afroamerican and African studies at the University of Michigan. She is the coeditor of The Anthropology of Media: A Reader and associate producer of the four-part documentary series Rhythms from Africa.