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Tenaille, Frank:
Music is the Weapon of the Future. Fifty Years of African Popular Music.
Chicago, Ill.: Lawrence Hill Books, 2002. 305 p.
ISBN 1-55652-450-1

CONTENTS

Map of Africa x
Introduction xiii

The Sweet Smells of Independence
  … And Lumumba Was Dancing the Cha-Cha-Cha
  Joseph Kabasele and the Rise of the Congolese Crucible 3
E. T. Mensah: The King of Highlife
  The Influence of Colonization on Music 11
Miriam Makeba: The “Click-Click Girl”
  South African Music Between Silence and Exile 19
Bembeya Jazz and the Syliphone Elephant
  The Era of National Pride in Guinea 27
Francis Bebey – Pierre Akendengue: The Metropolitans
  The Children of Négritude 35
Rakoto Frah: The Wizard Merlin of the Sodina
  The Malagasy Musical Entity 43

The Salt of the Earth
Thomas Mapfumo and the Ancestors’ Mbira in Zimbabwe
  National Liberation Music in Southern Africa 51
Franco: “You Go in OK, You Come Out KO”
  The Second Wave of the Congolese Sound 59
Fela Kuti: “The Man Who Carried Death in His Pouch”
  The Quest for the Nigerian Afrobeat 67
Mahlathini, “King of the Groaners” and Johnny Clegg, “The White Zulu”
  The Soweto Stewpot on the Hot Coals of Apartheid 77

Roots
Granmoun Lélé and Danyel Waro: The Pulse of Réunionese Maloya
  The Memory of the Maroons and the Return of Identity 87
Doudou N’Diaye Rose: The Messiaen of the Dakar Medina
  Africa and the Return to Rhythm 93
The “Strange Niger Blue” of Mali’s Ali Farka Toure
  The Roots of the Blues 99
Bi Kidude: “The Little Thing” Soul of the Zanzibar Taarab
  East Africa Between Bantu and Arab Colors 105

Crisis of the Signs
Toure Kunda and the “Dance of the Leaves”
  African Immigration and the Vogue for Black Music 113
Salif Keita: The Treason of the Albino
  The Contradictions of the Modern Griot 121
M’Pongo Love: The Feminist Who “Tickles” Men
  African Diversity’s Unspoken Matter 131
Zao: “Mr. Corpse”
  The Spices of Humorous Music 139
Alpha Blondy: “I Am a Rastafoulosophe, You Know!”
  The Rooting of Reggae in Africa 147
Mamadou Konte’s Little Hat
  The Activists of Black Showbiz 157
The Eskista of Mahmoud Ahmed
  The Case of Ethio-Jazz 163
 
World Sound
Mory Kante: The Electric Griot
  The Mutations of the Instrument 173
Papa Wemba: The Elegant Rumba
  The Third Congolese Wave 179
Geoffrey Oryema, or the Sorrow of the Great Lakes
  What Music After Rwanda? 185
From Kodé di Dona to Cesaria Evora: Sodade in A Major
  The Music of Cape Verde 191
Anne-Marie Nzie: “The Golden Voice of Cameroon”
  When “Country” Music Is Invited into World Music 199

Leaving the Twentieth Century
Manu “Papa Groove” Dibango: The Pastor and His Flock
  From Sidney Bechet to Techno 209
Abidjan – Dakar – Johannesburg: What’s All This Gnama-Gnama?
  Rap, Zouglou, Kwaito: The New Generation 217
The Youssou N’Dour Connection
  The Prototype of the African Artist of the Future? 227
Ray Lema or the Great World Band
  When Music Is Humanism 235

Afterword
The Duty of Memory 241

Appendixes
Musical Areas: Africa in Ethnomusicolor 249
Musical Genres and Styles 259
Glossary of Instruments 267
Selected Discography 277
Selected Bibliography 289
Acknowledgments 295
Index 297

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    Foreword to the 1996 edition by Abdilahi Qarshi xi
    Preface to the first edition xv
    Preface to the 1996 edition xxiii

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    The Poetry of the Second Period 103

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    The Historical Background 117
    The Poetry of the Third Period 146

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    18 Afterthoughts and Updates 209
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    Selected Bibliography 281
    Discography 285
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    Index 309

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    The North and West
    Introduction: Peter Gabriel 1
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    Tunisia 5
    Algeria 6
    Morocco 13
    Mauritania 16
    Senegal 17
    Mali 20
    Guinea 26
    Guinea-Bissau 29
    Cape Verde 29
    Sierra Leone 31
    Côte d’Ivoire 32
    Ghana 34
    Togo and Benin 36
    Nigeria 37

    Central Africa, The South and East
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    Cameroon 44
    Zaire 49
    Congo 56
    Gabon 56
    Angola 57
    Zambia 58
    Mozambique 59
    Zimbabwe 60
    South Africa 65
    Madagascar 70
    Mauritius and Reunion 71
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    Kenya 74
    Uganda 76
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