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Muhidin Maalim Gurumo and Hassan Rehani Bitchuka are two of
Tanzania's most well-known singers in the popular music genre known
as muziki wa dansi (literally, 'music for dancing'), a variation of
the Cuban-based rhumba idiom that has been enormously impactful
throughout central, eastern, and western Africa in the contemporary
era. This interview-based dual biography investigates the lives and
careers of these two men from an ethnomusicological and historical
perspective. Gurumo had a career spanning fifty years before his
death in 2014. Bitchuka has been singing professionally for
forty-five years. The two singers, affectionately called mapacha
("the twins") by their colleagues, worked together as partners for
thirty years from 1973-2003. This study situates these exemplary
individuals as creative agents in a local cultural context,
showcasing interviews, narratives, and nostalgic reminiscences
about musical life lived under Colonialism, state Socialism, and
current politics in the global neoliberal democratic milieu. The
book adds to a growing body of work about popular music in Dar es
Salaam and shines a light on these artists' creative processes, the
choices they have made regarding rare resources, their styles and
efficacy in conflict resolution, and their own memories regarding
the musical art they have created.
'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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