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Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
Performing the Nation Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania - Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
Author: Kelly Askew
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226029818
ISBN-10: 0226029816
Publication Date: 7/28/2002
Pages: 392
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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