DISCOnnections : popular music audiences in Freetown, Sierra Leone / Michael Stasik ; Langaa & African Studies Centre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stasik, Michael.

Contributor:

Langaa & African Studies Centre.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Sierra Leone--History and criticism.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Mankon, Bamenda : Langaa Research and Pub. Common Initiative Group, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book offers an intriguing account of the complex and often contradictory relations between music and society in Freetown's past and present. Blending anthropological thought with ethnographic and historical research, it explores the conjunctures of music practices and social affiliations and the diverse patterns of social dis/connections that music helps to shape, to (re)create, and to defy in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown. The first half of the book traces back the changing social relationships and the concurrent changes in the city's music life from the first days of the colony in the late 18th century up to the turbulent and thriving music scenes in the first decade of the 21st century. Grounded in this comprehensive historiography of Freetown's socio-musical palimpsest, the second half of the book puts forth a detailed ethnography of social dynamics in the realms of music, calibrating contemporary Freetown's social polyphony with its musical counterpart.

Contents:

pt. I. The music/society nexus : some introductory reflections and observations

pt. II. From class to mass : Freetown's music and society in historical perspective

pt. III. Disconnections : social dynamics in the spaces of music

pt. IV. Topia of utopias.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789956728459

9956728454

9789956728572

9956728578

9789956728336

9956728330

OCLC:

905997444