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Mashindano - Competitive Music Performance in East Africa (Paperback) Loot Price: R2,276
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Mashindano - Competitive Music Performance in East Africa (Paperback): Gregory F. Barz, Frank Gunderson

Mashindano - Competitive Music Performance in East Africa (Paperback)

Gregory F. Barz, Frank Gunderson

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'Mashindano' - from Kiswahili, Kushindana (to compete) - is a generic term for any organised competitive event. Here it relates to popular entertainment activities within which cultural groups competing for recognition by their communities, as leaders in their fields. Nineteen leading scholars contribute new studies on this little researched area, making a long overdue contribution to musical scholarship in East Africa, with a focus on Tanzania. The authors address key questions: What are the various roles played by competitive pratices in musical contexts? How do music competitions act as mechanisms of innovation? How do music competitions act as mechanisms of innovation? How do they serve their communities in identity formation? And what, specifically, do competitive music practices communicate, and to whom? Local dance contests, choir competitions, popular entertainment, song duels, and sporting events are all described. Work is drawn from ethnomusicology, history, musicology, anthropology, folklore, and literary, post-colonial, and performance studies.

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Imprint: Mkuki Na Nyota Publishers
Country of origin: Tanzania, United Republic of
Release date: June 2000
First published: September 2000
Editors: Gregory F. Barz • Frank Gunderson
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 978-9976-973-82-2
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Folk music
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
Books > Music > Folk music
Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
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LSN: 9976-973-82-9
Barcode: 9789976973822

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