drewett&cloonan2006
Drewett, Michael & Martin Cloonan (eds.): |
CONTENTS
List of Abbreviations vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Series Editor’s Preface xiii
Part 1 Censorship Issues
1 Martin Cloonan
Popular Music Censorship in Africa: An Overview 3
2 Michael Drewett
The Cultural Boycott against Apartheid South Africa:
A Case of Defensible Censorship? 23
3 Dylan Craig & Nomalanga Mkhize
Vocal Killers, Silent Killers: Popular Media, Genocide,
and the call for Benevolent Censorship in Rwanda 39
4 Gary Baines
Racist Hate Speech in South Africa’s Fragile Democracy:
The Case of Ngema’s ‘AmaNdiya’ 53
5 Diane Thram
ZVAKWANA! – ENOUGH! Media Control and Unofficial
Censorship of Music in Zimbabwe 71
6 Wilson Akpan
And the Beat Goes On? Message Music, Political
Repression and the Power of Hip-Hop in Nigeria 91
Part 2 Case Studies
7 Reuben M. Chirambo
Traditional and Popular Music, Hegemonic Power
and Censorship in Malawi: 1964-1994 109
8 Johnny Clegg & Michael Drewett
Why Don’t You Sing about the Leaves and the Dreams?
Reflecting in Apartheid South Africa 127
9 Kelly M. Askew & John Francis Kitime
Popular Music Censorship in Tanzania 137
10 Peter Muhoro Mwangi
Silencing Musical Expression in Colonial and
Post-Colonial Kenya 157
11 John Collins
One Hundred Years of Censorship in Ghanaian
Popular Music Performance 171
12 Graeme Ewens
Where the Shoe Pinches: The Imprisonment of Franco Luambo Makiadi as a Curious Example of Music Censorship in Zaire 187
13 Malika Mehdid
For a Song – Censure in Algerian Rai Music 199
14 Martin Cloonan & Michael Drewett
Concluding Comments on the Censorship of Popular Music
in Africa 215
Index 221