assen2012
Assen, Nils von der : |
CONTENTS
List of illustrations v
Resonation CD + notes vi
Acknowledgments viii
Opening Notes
A Pretty Good Crowd for a Friday 11
A City of Windows and Mirrors 12
Popular Music and Instrumental Details 14
‘Feeling’ the Music: Thoughts on Peircean Semiotics 15
Altered Perspectives and Chapter Synopsis 17
Chapter 1
Music, Politics And Modernity
Cosmopolitanism and Glocalisation 20
Points of Departure 22
Natural and National 25
Chapter 2
Going Electric: Dansi as a Cosmopolitan Modernism
Beni Ngoma Performance and Societies 30
The Advent of Dansi 32
Dansi as Anti-Establishment Music 34
Afro-Cuban Rumba 36
The Development of a Record Industry 37
Congolese Rumba, Tanzanian Dansi 39
Chapter 3
Orchestrating the National: Dansi as the Sound of The State
Ujamaa and Umoja 42
National Music, National Musicians 43
Going Out Dancing 49
Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam (RTD) and Censorship 49
Restrictions and Incentives 52
Chapter 4
Bongo
The Music of the New Generation 54
A Capitalist Scene 58
The Old Stars 62
Chapter 5
Vya kale ni dhahabu! — “Old is Gold!”
From Dust to Digital 67
Fundisha 72
Fathers, Brothers, Grandchildren 75
Resonation
Bibliography