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Performing the Nation - Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
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Performing the Nation - Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology CSE
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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-building and interpersonal power dynamics.
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