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Performing the Nation
Kelly Askew
其他書名
Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania
出版
University of Chicago Press
, 2002-07-28
主題
Art / General
Music / General
Music / Ethnic
Music / Ethnomusicology
Music / History & Criticism
Social Science / General
Social Science / Popular Culture
Social Science / Discrimination
Social Science / Race & Ethnic Relations
ISBN
0226029816
9780226029818
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=i7riV5SvDe8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Since its founding in 1964, the United Republic of Tanzania has used music, dance, and other cultural productions as ways of imagining and legitimizing the new nation. Focusing on the politics surrounding Swahili musical performance, Kelly Askew demonstrates the crucial role of popular culture in Tanzania's colonial and postcolonial history.
As Askew shows, the genres of
ngoma
(traditional dance),
dansi
(urban jazz), and
taarab
(sung Swahili poetry) have played prominent parts in official articulations of "Tanzanian National Culture" over the years. Drawing on over a decade of research, including extensive experience as a
taarab
and
dansi
performer, Askew explores the intimate relations among musical practice, political ideology, and economic change. She reveals the processes and agents involved in the creation of Tanzania's national culture, from government elites to local musicians, poets, wedding participants, and traffic police. Throughout, Askew focuses on performance itself—musical and otherwise—as key to understanding both nation-building and interpersonal power dynamics.