Music and Dance in Eastern Africa
Current Research in Humanities and Social Sciences
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 emer...
Éditeur : Africae, Twaweza Communications
Lieu d’édition : Nairobi
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 15 décembre 2020
ISBN numérique : 978-2-9573058-4-1
DOI : 10.4000/books.africae.1622
Collection : Africae Studies
Année d’édition : 2018
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-9966-028-75-4
Nombre de pages : 138
Kimani Njogu et Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle
ForewordMaina wa Mũtonya et Kahithe Kiiru
IntroductionPart I: Dance and the Forming of a Nation in Colonial Kenya
Bettina Ng’weno
“Dancing is Part and Parcel of Someone who is Cultured”: Ballroom Dancing and the Spaces of Urban Identity in 1950s NairobiPart II: The Performance of Local Politics and National Identities
Kenedid A. Hassan
Pan-Somalist Discourse and New Modes of Nationalist Expression in the Somali Horn: From Somali Poetic Resistance to Djibouti’s Gacan MacaanHassan H. Kochore
The Symbolism of Gada in Local Political Campaign Songs among the Boran of Marsabit County in Northern KenyaPart III: Music and the Politics of Love and Gender
Christina J. Woolner
Singing Love in(to) Somaliland: Love Songs, “Heritage Preservation”, and the Shaping of Post-War PublicsMaina wa Mũtonya
Dancing to the Marriage Beat(ing): The Gender Debate in a Gĩkũyũ Popular Music DiscourseGordon Onyango Omenya
Engendering Music: Changing Trends of Music Performance and Dance in Luo NyanzaPart IV: Music and Dance in Life Writing
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.
Kahithe Kiiru (dir.)
Maina wa Mũtonya (dir.)
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