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Necessary Noise - Music, Film, and Charitable Imperialism in the East of Congo (Hardcover)
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Necessary Noise - Music, Film, and Charitable Imperialism in the East of Congo (Hardcover)
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Since 1997, the war in the east of the Democratic Republic of the
Congo has taken more than 6 million lives and shapes the daily
existence of the nation's residents. While the DRC is often
portrayed in international media as an unproductive failed state,
the Congolese have turned increasingly to art-making to express
their experience to external eyes. Author Cherie Rivers Ndaliko
argues that cultural activism and the enthusiasm to produce art
exists in Congo as a remedy for the social ills of war and as a way
to communicate a positive vision of the country. Ndaliko introduces
a memorable cast of artists, activists, and ordinary people from
the North-Kivu province, whose artistic and cultural interventions
are routinely excluded from global debates that prioritize
economics, politics, and development as the basis of policy
decision about Congo. Rivers also shows how art has been mobilized
by external humanitarian and charitable organizations, becoming the
vehicle through which to inflict new kinds of imperial domination.
Written by a scholar and activist in the center of the current
public policy debate, Necessary Noise examines the uneasy balance
of accomplishing change through art against the unsteady background
of civil war. At the heart of this book is the Yole!Africa cultural
center, which is the oldest independent cultural center in the east
of Congo. Established in the aftermath of volcano Nyiragongo's 2002
eruption and sustained through a series of armed conflicts, the
cultural activities organized by Yole!Africa have shaped a
generation of Congolese youth into socially and politically engaged
citizens. By juxtaposing intimate ethnographic, aesthetic, and
theoretical analyses of this thriving local initiative with case
studies that expose the often destructive underbelly of charitable
action, Necessary Noise introduces into heated international
debates on aid and sustainable development a compelling case for
the necessity of arts and culture in negotiating sustained peace.
Through vivid descriptions of a community of young people
transforming their lives through art, Ndaliko humanizes a dire
humanitarian disaster. In so doing, she invites readers to reflect
on the urgent choices we must navigate as globally responsible
citizens. The only study of music or film culture in the east of
Congo, Necessary Noise raises an impassioned and vibrantly
interdisciplinary voice that speaks to the theory and practice of
socially engaged scholarship.
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