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"Indépendance Cha Cha": African pop music since the independence era

"Indépendance Cha Cha": afrikanische Popmusik seit der Unabhängigkeit
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Dorsch, Hauke

Abstract

Investigating why Latin American music came to be the soundtrack of the independence era, this contribution offers an overview of musical developments and cultural politics in certain sub-Saharan African countries since the 1960s. Focusing first on how the governments of newly independent African st... view more

Investigating why Latin American music came to be the soundtrack of the independence era, this contribution offers an overview of musical developments and cultural politics in certain sub-Saharan African countries since the 1960s. Focusing first on how the governments of newly independent African states used musical styles and musicians to support their nation-building projects, the article then looks at musicians' more recent perspectives on the independence era.... view less


Der Beitrag gibt eine kurze Übersicht über die Entwicklung ausgewählter Musikstile in verschiedenen afrikanischen Ländern seit der Unabhängigkeit. Der Autor schildert die Bemühungen der Regierungen in den jungen Nationalstaaten, Musik in ihr Projekt des nation-building einzubinden; er folgt dem Blic... view more

Der Beitrag gibt eine kurze Übersicht über die Entwicklung ausgewählter Musikstile in verschiedenen afrikanischen Ländern seit der Unabhängigkeit. Der Autor schildert die Bemühungen der Regierungen in den jungen Nationalstaaten, Musik in ihr Projekt des nation-building einzubinden; er folgt dem Blick, den Musiker in jüngster Zeit auf die Unabhängigkeitsära richten, und diskutiert dabei die Frage, warum ausgerechnet lateinamerikanische Musik zum "Soundtrack" der Unabhängigkeit wurde.... view less

Keywords
Africa; pop music; music; ethnology; sociocultural development

Classification
Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature
Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology

Free Keywords
Anthropology; Ethnomusicology; music; socio-cultural change; Soziokultureller Wandel; Africa; 1957-2010

Document language
English

Publication Year
2010

Page/Pages
p. 131-146

Journal
Africa Spectrum, 45 (2010) 3

ISSN
1868-6869

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works


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