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Music and Dance in Eastern Africa : Current Research in Humanities and Social Sciences / Kahithe Kiiru, Maina wa Mũtonya.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brinkman, Inge
- Series:
- Africae Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music.
- Dance.
- music.
- gender.
- dance.
- social change.
- Local Subjects:
- Music.
- Dance.
- music.
- gender.
- dance.
- social change.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (138 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Nairobi : Africae, 2020.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection of articles cuts across the Eastern African region, with authors interrogating varying themes in different historical periods that speak not only to the practice of music and dance but also to the performances that characterize these practices. The book dedicates itself to research in music and dance, while engaging with colonial and contemporary political and historical realities within the Eastern African region. Inevitably, themes that grapple with urbanization and the emergence of urban spaces for entertainment, as well as the imagination of culture by the colonialist form a key window into the research and understanding of music and dance. The ever-present performance of ethnic identities that shape most of our socio-political contexts adds to the overall texture of this book. At the same time, the debate and question of gender in music and dance is also comprehensively covered, in an attempt to delineate gender relations in the region. Articles that employ a cross-genre approach to music and dance have enriched the wide perspective of understanding African societies and the realities that emanate from everyday lives in Eastern Africa. A useful addition to the growing literature of popular culture in Africa, this book takes a multidisciplinary angle and can easily fit within the disciplines of political science, urban studies, literature, sociology and media studies. The book contributes to the recurrent dialogue towards emphasizing the relevance of the study of songs and dances in a larger context within humanities and social sciences.
- Contents:
- Foreword (Kĩmani Njogu & Emmanuelle Pommerolle); Introduction: Music, dance and social change in Eastern Africa (Maina wa Mũtonya & Kahithe Kiiru). Part I: Dance and the forming of a nation in colonial Kenya. 'Colonial choreography': how the British administration shaped dance heritage in Kenya (Kahithe Kiiru); "Dancing is part and parcel of someone who is cultured": ballroom dancing and the spaces of urban identity in 1950s Nairobi (Bettina Ng'weno). Part II: The performance of local politics and national identities. Pan-Somalist discource and new modes of nationalist expression in the Somali Horn: from Somali poetic resistance to Djibouti's 'Gacan Macaan' (Kenedid A. Hassan); The symbolism of 'Gada' in local political campaign songs among the Boran of Marsabit County in northern Kenya (Hassan H. Kochore). Part III: Music and the politics of love and gender. Singing love in(to) Somaliland: love songs, "heritage preservation", and the shaping of post-war publics (Christina J. Woolner; Dancing the marriage beat(ing): the gender debate in a Gĩkũyũ popular music discourse (Maina wa Mũtonya); Engendering music: changing trends of music performance and dance in Luo Nyanza (Gordon Onyango Omenya). Part IV: Music and dance in life writing. Representing performance: memories of song, music and dance in the autobiographical writing of Ngũgĩ and Wainaina (Inge Brinkman).
- Notes:
- OpenEdition Books License https://www.openedition.org/12554
- ISBN:
- 2-9573058-4-4
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