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Performing religion : negotiating past and present in Kwaya music of Tanzania / Gregory F. Barz.

Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML2951.T3 B38 2003
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Barz, Gregory F., 1960-
Series:
Kerk en theologie in context ; nr. 42.
Kerk en theologie in context
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Choral music--Tanzania.
Choral music.
Music--Tanzania--History and criticism.
Music.
Ethnomusicology--Tanzania.
Ethnomusicology.
Kwaya (African people).
Tanzania--Religious life and customs.
Tanzania.
Kwaya (African people)--Tanzania--Music.
Hymns, Swahili.
Songs, Swahili.
Music--Tanzania.
Ethnic music recordings--Tanzania.
Ethnic music recordings, Swahili.
Ethnic music recordings, Kwaya.
Local Subjects:
Ethnic music recordings--Tanzania.
Ethnic music recordings, Swahili.
Ethnic music recordings, Kwaya.
Genre:
Music.
Sound recordings.
Academic theses.
Physical Description:
xvi, 225 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 /3/4 in.)
4 3/4 in.
Place of Publication:
Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2003.
System Details:
1.4 m/s
digital recording
Contents:
Theories, frames, methods, and lenses : an ethnographic approach to the study of Tanzanian kwaya music
East African kwaya music and the colonial and missionary encounter
Conflicting, complementary, and divergent aesthetics of kwaya music
"We are from different ethnic groups, but we live here as one family" : the musical performance of community in and East African kwaya
Kwaya music and the performance of spirituality and disaffection : music and worship in a Tanzanian kwaya community
Kwayas, kandas, kiosks : Tanzanian popular kwaya music
Social organization and the creation of sacred space within Kwaya ya Upendo
"I am able to see very far but I am unable to reach there" : Ndugu Gideon Mdegella's Nyimbo za Kwaya.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [198]-205), index and glossary.
Accompanying compact disc features Kwaya ya Upendo, Azania Front Lutheran Cathedral, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, directed by Gideon Mdegella as well as other choirs from Dar es Salaam. The CD provides illustrations that highlight many of the concepts and issues raised in the text and document the art of kwaya traditions.
ISBN:
904200827X
OCLC:
53442894

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