Playing with Identities in Contemporary Music in Africa
Playing with Identities in Contemporary Music in Africa By Mai Palmberg; Annemette Kirkegaard
2002 | 182 Pages | ISBN: 9171064966 | PDF | 4 MB
2002 | 182 Pages | ISBN: 9171064966 | PDF | 4 MB
The musics of Africa play a particularly important role in expressing and forming identities. This book brings together African and Nordic scholars from both musicology and other disciplines in an attempt to analyse various aspects of the complex playing with volatile identities in music in Africa today. Taken together the papers put new light on the assumed or real dichotomies between countryside and city, collective and individual, tradition and modernity, authentic and alien. The papers are based on contributions for a conference organized by the research project Cultural Images in and of Africa of the Nordic Africa Institute together with the Sibelius Museum/Department of Musicology and the Centre for Continuing Education at bo Akademi University in bo (Turku), Finland in October 2000. The book includes a keynote speech by Christopher Waterman (UCLA), and an introduction by Annemette Kirkegaard, Copenhagen University. Southern, West and East Africa are represented in the studies, which cover a great variety of musics.