Intonations [[electronic resource] ] : a social history of music and nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to recent times / / Marissa J. Moorman
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| Autore: |
Moorman Marissa Jean
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| Titolo: |
Intonations [[electronic resource] ] : a social history of music and nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to recent times / / Marissa J. Moorman
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| Pubblicazione: | Athens, Ohio, : Ohio University Press, c2008 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (318 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.4/8423096732 |
| Soggetto topico: | Music - Social aspects - Angola - Luanda (Luanda) |
| Music - Political aspects - Angola | |
| Nationalism in music | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Angola History Revolution, 1961-1975 Music and the revolution |
| Angola History Civil War, 1975-2002 Music and the war | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Intonations |
| ISBN: | 0-8214-4304-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910823724803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
New African histories series.