falola&fleming2012
Falola, Toyin & Tyler Fleming (eds.): |
CONTENTS
Tyler Fleming & Toyin Falola
Introduction 1
I. Contemporary Music and Its Wider Social Impacts
1. George Gathigi
Inventing East African Hip-Hop: Youth and Musical Convergence in East Africa 35
2. Katrina Daly Thompson
Rap, Cartoon and Rap Cartoon: Representations of the Maasai in Contemporary Tanzanian Popular Culture 49
3. Batamaka Somé
An Emulating Beat: the Takiboronse Effect in Burkina Faso Popular Culture 62
4. Farai Wonderful Bere
Infectious Beats: Urban Grooves Music’s Collusion with the Zimbabwean State 78
II. Transnational Projections and Performances
5. Fallou Ngom
Popular Culture in Senegal: Blending the Secular and the Religious 97
6. Benjamin Brühwiler
Blackface in America and Africa: Popular arts and Diaspora Consciousness in Cape Town and the Gold Coast 125
7. Mathayo B. Ndomondo
The South Africanization of Tanzanian Christian Popular Music 144
III. Historical Reflections on Music
8. Xavier Livermon
Representations of Sophiatown in Kwaito Music: Mafikizolo and Musical Memory 169
9. Tyler Fleming
Stars of Song and Cinema: The Impact of Film on 1950s Johannesburg’s Black Music Scene 191
10. Moses Chikowero
Performing and Contesting Modernity: Zimbabwean Urban Musicians and Cultural Self-Constructions, 1930s-70s 213
11. Jonathan Zilberg
Revisiting Country Music in Zimbabwe to Reflect Upon the History of the Study of African Popular Culture 249
IV. Cultural and Political Meanings in African Music
12. George Nyabuga
Things Fall Apart: What troubles Hath Hip Hop in Kenya? 283
13. Samuel Gyasi Obeng
Speaking the Unspeakable Through Hiplife: A Discursive Construction of Ghanaian Political Discourse 296
14. Juliana Braz Dias
Popular Music in Cape Verde: Resistance or Conciliation? 316
Contributors 329
Index 333