| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
|
| Title Information: |
new African music in a globalizing world |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
CharryEric S, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
Bloomington |
| Published: |
Indiana University Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
2012 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (x, 390 p.)ill. : |
| Series: |
African expressive cultures |
| Subject: |
Popular music - Social aspects - Africa - |
| Subject: |
Music and globalization - Africa - |
| Subject: |
Music and youth - Africa - |
| Subject: |
Hip hop - Africa - |
| Subject: |
Popular music - History and criticism - Africa - |
| Subject: |
Rap (Music) - History and criticism - Africa - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780253005823/ |
| Notes: |
Includes discography, videography, and webography |
| ISBN: |
9780253005823electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0253005825electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780253003072hbk. |
| ISBN: |
9780253005755pbk. |
| Content Note: |
A capsule history of African rap \ Eric Charry -- Rap stories (Ghanaand South Africa). The birth of Ghanaian hiplife : urban style, black thought, proverbial speech \ Jesse Weaver Shipley ; A genre coming of age : transformation, difference, and authenticity in the rap music and hip hop culture of South Africa \ Lee Watkins -- Griots and messengers (Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, and Malawi). The rapper as modern griot : reclaiming ancient traditions \ Patricia Tang ; Promises of the chameleon: reggae artist Tiken Jah Fakoly's intertextual contestation of power in Côte d'Ivoire \ Daniel BReed ; Style, message, and meaning in Malawian youth rap and ragga performances \ John Fenn -- Identity and hybridity (Mali and Nigeria). Mapping cosmopolitan identities : rap music and male youth culture in Mali \ Dorothea E. Schulz ; Nigerian hip hop : exploring a black world hybrid \ Stephanie Shonekan -- East coast (Kenya and Tanzania). The local and global in Kenyan rap and hip hop culture \Jean Ngoya Kidula ; Imitation and innovation in the music, dress, and clmps of Tanzanian youth \ Alex Perullo -- Popular music panoramas (Ghana and Malawi). Contemporary Ghanaian popular music since the 1980s\ John Collins ; Popular music and young male audiences in contemporary Malawi \ Jochen Seebode -- Drumming (Mali). Urban drumming : traditional jembe celebration music in a west African city(Bamako) \ Rainer Polak -- Music for an African twenty-first century \ Eric Charry |