Intonations :: a social history of music and nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to recent times /

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 mus...

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1. Verfasser: Moorman, Marissa Jean
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, ©2008.
Schriftenreihe:New African histories series.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxv, 290 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-273) and index.
ISBN:9780821443040
0821443046