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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823724803321

Autore

Moorman Marissa Jean

Titolo

Intonations [[electronic resource] ] : a social history of music and nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to recent times / / Marissa J. Moorman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, Ohio, : Ohio University Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8214-4304-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 p.)

Collana

New African histories series

Disciplina

306.4/8423096732

Soggetti

Music - Social aspects - Angola - Luanda (Luanda)

Music - Political aspects - Angola

Nationalism in music

Angola History Revolution, 1961-1975 Music and the revolution

Angola History Civil War, 1975-2002 Music and the war

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Musseques and urban culture -- In the days of bota fogo: culture and the early nationalist struggle, 1947-61 -- Dueling bands and good girls: gender and music in Luanda's musseques,1961-75 -- Ngongo jami (my suffering): lyrics, daily life, and social space, 1956-74 -- Radios, turntables, and vinyl: technology and the imagined community, 1961-75 -- The hiatus: music, dissent, and nation building after independence, 1975-90s.

Sommario/riassunto

Intonations tells the story of how Angola's urban residents in the late colonial period (roughly 1945-74) used music to talk back to their colonial oppressors and, more importantly, to define what it meant to be Angolan and what they hoped to gain from independence. A compilation of Angolan music is included in CD format.  Marissa J. Moorman presents a social and cultural history of the relationship between Angolan culture and politics. She argues that it was in and through popular urban music, produced mainly in the musseques (urban shantytowns) of the capital city, Luanda, that Angolans for