Youth, Pentecostalism, and Popular Music in Rwanda / Andrea Mariko Grant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grant, Andrea, 1981- author.

Series:

International African library ; Number 74.

The International African Library ; Number 74

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Religious aspects--Pentecostal churches.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 303 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Aimed at postgraduate students and researchers of anthropology, sociology and youth culture in Africa, and Rwanda in particular, this book offers insights into how urban young people in Rwanda navigate everyday life through popular music and new religious practices, finding ways to exert agency in a challenging political context"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Series information

Title page

Imprints page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Transforming Hearts

'Igisobanuro cy'urupfu'

Transforming Hearts

Umutima wumva: A Heart That Hears, Feels, Listens

Youth, Pentecostalism, Popular Culture

Historical Context: Religion, Culture, Power

The 'New' Rwanda: A Development Success Story?

Methodology: The City, Gacaca, Silences

Chapter Outline

Part I Urban Youth and Pentecostal Worlds

1 Of Hearts, Visions, and Pentecostal Subjects

The Post-Genocide Religious Landscape

True Revival Church

Feeling 'Free' with Jesus

Healing from Broken-Heartedness

Moving On from 'Struggling'

Véronique: Learning How to Pray

Entrepreneurial Visions and 'Strategic Plans'

Development 'Visions' for Some, not for Others

On Blocked Futures

The Problem of Shoes

The Pentecostal Subject, the RPF Subject

2 Who Are the 'True' Sons of God? Ubwenge and Pentecostal Ethics

Christian Ubwenge

Gaston: Ubwenge in Practice

Robert: On the Dangers of 'Hot Blood'

Of Endings

'False Sons' in the Church

Ubwenge and the State

Pretending to Forget

Ubwenge, Social Navigation, Resistance

3 Leaving a Legacy: Pentecostal Women and Timework

Gender under the RPF

The Dangers of Marriage

Lydia: Ubwenge as Gendered

Pastor Herve: On the Perils of Female Leadership

Timework and Christian Legacies

Leaving/Living a Legacy

Hearts That Had Been Transformed Too Much?

The Problem with Women

Gender as Structure?

4 Rwanda Shima Imana: The Politics of Thanksgiving

The New Churches and the State: Paul Kagame and Rick Warren

Rwanda Thanksgiving Day: 'Yesu ashimwe!'

A New RPF-Protestant Axis?

'Gitwaza, Mihigo Kizito Disagree on God's Mercy'

The Controversy

'Hidden Dynamics': The Ethnic Make-Up of the New Churches

'Genocidal Discourse' and Controlling Spiritual Meaning

Knowing Others by Their 'Fruits': On the Legibility of Pentecostal Conversion

Wrestling with God

5 Pentecostal Sounds and Voice

Pentecostal Music: Praise and Worship (guhimbaza Imana)

Removing Blockages: Pentecostal Noise

The Problem of Gospel 'Stars'

The Problem of the Individual Voice

The Pentecostal Voice

Catholic Silence

Sound and the State

The Sounds of Transformation

Part II Urban Youth and Musical Worlds

6 Singing from the Heart: Music after 1994

Rwanda's Musical History: A Brief Sketch

Starting from Zero: Rebuilding the Music Scene after the Genocide

Mani Martin: Hearts and the 'Inner Person'

Musical Chances and Bad Fathers

'I Sing in Their Honour'

Absences and Silences

7 Singing Life: Hip Hop in the City

Hip Hop in Rwanda

A Musical Style of Anger and Sorrow?

Imagining the City Otherwise: The Streets of Nyamirambo and the 'New' Kigali

'Za nduru, Man, ni za nduru'

Hiding Messages, Cultivating Silences

Dashed (Hip Hop) Dreams

The Gender of Corruption

Singing Life, Transforming Hearts

8 The Making of a 'Superstar'

Guma Guma 1 and 2

The Making of a Post-Genocide Celebrity Subject

Live Surprise, Take 1: The Stoning of Tom Close

Live Surprise, Take 2: 'The North' (Majyaruguru) and the New Akazu

Igiti: When a Tree Is Not a Tree

Playback versus Live Music: Contestations over 'Truth'

'Leave Politics to the Politicians'

The Possibilities of 'Live'

Conclusion: Mihigo and the Politics of Humanity

Sound, Voice, Silence

Thinking beyond the State

References

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Dec 2024).

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781009262682

1009262688

9781009262712

1009262718