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Popular music, ethnicity and politics in the Kenya of the 1990s : Okatch Biggy live at "The Junction" /
Okatch Biggy was the single most dominant benga artiste of the 1990s. Over that decade, benga was the most important genre of popular music in Kenya. What is it about the music of Okatch Biggy that made it attractive to his target audience, the Luo of the 1990s? Is there something about the Luo of t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Okatch Biggy was the single most dominant benga artiste of the 1990s. Over that decade, benga was the most important genre of popular music in Kenya. What is it about the music of Okatch Biggy that made it attractive to his target audience, the Luo of the 1990s? Is there something about the Luo of the 1990s that predisposed them to this music? In the course of answering these--and related--questions, this volume analyzes Okatch Biggy's songs as works of art, that is, by identifying the aesthetic and rhetorical conventions that are deployed in the songs, and explores the central messages that t. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9781527528253 1527528251 |
| Acceso: | Legal Deposit; |