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Performing the nation : Swahili music and cultural politics in Ta nzania / Kelly M. Askew.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Chicago studies in ethnomusicologyPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2002.Description: xviii, 417 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3 /4 in.)ISBN:
  • 0226029816 (paperback : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.484  22
Contents:
Arts of governance -- Tanga, Tanganyika, Tanzania -- Of ginger ale a nd orange soda -- Weighty gestures, significant glances : taarab perfor mance and the constitution of social relations -- Cultural revolution i n Tanzania? -- Competing agendas : the production of Tanzanian national culture -- Of mwanyas and multipartyism : taarab performance and the T anzanian state -- Conclusion : cultural policy by and for the people.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-375), discography (p. 37 7-402), and indexes.

Arts of governance -- Tanga, Tanganyika, Tanzania -- Of ginger ale a nd orange soda -- Weighty gestures, significant glances : taarab perfor mance and the constitution of social relations -- Cultural revolution i n Tanzania? -- Competing agendas : the production of Tanzanian national culture -- Of mwanyas and multipartyism : taarab performance and the T anzanian state -- Conclusion : cultural policy by and for the people.

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