| Series |
Global music series
Global music series. ^A563337
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| Contents |
Heating up!. East Africa ; Traditional music performance: the example of Ngoma ; What is "music" in East Africa? ; Greetings -- Traditional performances in two villages and a town. Case study #1: Nyanhugi village, Sukumaland, Tanzania ; Case study #2: Bugwere village, Busoga region, Eastern Uganda ; Case study #3: Kisumu town, Western Kenya Musical Transcription ; Gender and traditional music performance in East Africa -- Fostering social cohesion: competition and traditional musical performance. Competition as social cohesion ; Case study #1: Bulabo in Sukumaland, Tanzania ; Bufumu ; Bagaalu and Bagiika dance societies ; Samba ; Changes and adaptation in Bulabo ; Case study #2: choir competitions in Dar es Salaam ; Vignette 1: the initial evangelical encounter ; Vignette 2: the emergence of Tanzanian voices ; Vignette 3: a postcolonial moment -- Individuals in East African musical worlds: Gideon Mdegella and Centurio Balikoowa. Vignette I: Gideon Mdegella ; Vignette 2: Centurio Balikoowa ; Communities and musical specialists ; Gideon Mdegella: "Mwalimu". Mwalimu wa Kwaya: ritual-musical specialists in the Tanzanian Lutheran church ; "I am able to see very far, but I am unable to reach there" ; Mdegella and "First-class music" -- Centurio Balikoowa. Background ; Musical instruments ; Endere (flute) ; Endingidi (tubefiddle) ; Construction of the Endingid ; Ntongooli (bowl lyre) ; Personal history -- Situating traditional music within modernity. Vignette: anthems and identity ; Case study #1: Mu kkubo ery 'Omusaalaba. Basic tenets of Kinganda traditional music ; Issue of timbre ; Drumming ; Issue of interlocking patterns -- Case study #2: "The roots of Benga" ; D. O. Misiani, the "King" of Benga ; Popular versus traditional - "Modernity happened!" -- Cooling down!. Traditional music and the interrelation of the arts in East Africa. |
| Abstract |
This book introduces readers to the various ways in which historical music traditions and present-day musical performances either collide, fuse, or remain mutually exclusive in contemporary East Africa. Through descriptions of performances and case studies that detail the lives of individual musicians, the author shows how people in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania create, dance to, and interact with traditional East African music. Focusing on specific contexts in which music is integrated into the everyday lives of individuals and communities, this book considers the significance of music for people as they negotiate the world around them. It looks at the defining principle of musical performance in East Africa - how drumming (and the playing of other musical instruments), singing, dancing, and drama are deeply connected to traditional cultures. The book highlights the importance of individual musicians as specialized members of communities and describes the role of musical performances in such social systems as popular entertainment and religious rituals. It also shows how traditional East African music an performance has responded to modernization, colonization, commercialism, and nationalism. |
| Local note | Joyner-JOYNER MUSIC LIBRARY BOOK ACCOMPANIED BY SOUND RECORDING LOCATED AT CALL NUMBER: MusicLib CD-10200. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 126-135) and index. |
| LCCN | 2003060848 |
| ISBN | 0195141512 (cl : alk. paper |
| ISBN | 9780195141511 (cl : alk. paper |
| ISBN | 0195141520 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780195141528 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
