Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania Paperback - 2002
by Kelly Askew
First line
As we pulled up to the border an audible sigh echoed throughout the minibus.
From the rear cover
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-state formation and interpersonal power dynamics.
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- Title Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania
- Author Kelly Askew
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Book
- Pages 392
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
- Date July 28, 2002
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780226029818 / 0226029816
- Weight 1.34 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 8.52 x 6.6 x 0.94 in (21.64 x 16.76 x 2.39 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Southern Africa
- Library of Congress subjects Swahili-speaking peoples - Tanzania - Music, Tanzania - Cultural policy
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001008414
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.484
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