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Mashindano - Competitive Music Performance in East Africa (Paperback)
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Mashindano - Competitive Music Performance in East Africa (Paperback)
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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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