African musics in context : institutions, culture, identity / editor, Thomas Solomon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Solomon, Thomas, editor.

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music and geography--Africa.

Music and geography.

Music--Africa--History and criticism.

Music.

Africa.

Music--Social aspects.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 365 pages : illustrations, music ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Kampala, Uganda : Fountain Publishers, 2015.

Summary:

"[This book] discusses the place of performing arts in Ugandan society, archiving music and music sources, performing archival music, performing health and religious issues in music, music and identity in East Africa as well music in motion, which tackles how identity shifts when people move from one place to another ... follows up on and extends work in an earlier volume (Nannyonga-Tamusuza and Solomon 2012) which included papers from the first symposium in the series. While this book focuses primarily on music and music research in Uganda, the chapters by the contributors from Tanzania, South Africa and Norway demonstrate the importance of scholarly and professional networks that connect the different countries of the African continent with each other and with the larger international scholarly community"--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

The Uganda national cultural policy and the development of the performing arts in Uganda / Joseph Walugembe

Understanding popular music and its development in Uganda / Joe Tabula

Written documentation of the Klaus Wachsmann music collection : repatriating the past to present Indiginous users in Uganda / Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza

Performing the archive : repatriation of digital heritage and the ILAM Music Heritage Project SA / Diane Thram

Mataali drums and the cultural cocktail in the Muslim community in Uganada / Abasi Kiyimba

Musical performance, meaning and power : a postcolonial perspective / Nicholas Ssempijja

Popular music and HIV/AIDS : sensitisation about or promotion of HIV in Uganda? / Stella Wadiru

"Performing Uganda" : Ndere Troupe's representation of a "Uganda" identity / Anita Desire Asaasira

Recreating Wagogo music and dance for tourists : the Jipe Moyo Arts Troupe in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania / Jenitha Abela Kameli

Kinyankore children's songs : performing adult gender among the Banyankore of Southwestern Uganda / Mercy Mirembe Ntangaare

"This is the lofe we have" : music and displacement among the Bududa landslide survivors in Kiryandongo Refugee Camp, Northwest Uganda / Dominic D.B. Makwa

Theorising diaspora, hybridity and music / Thomas Solomon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

9970252453

9789970252459

OCLC:

933714955

Publisher Number:

99967519516