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DISCOnnections : Popular Music Audiences in Freetown, Sierra Leone /
This book offers an intriguing account of the complex and often contradictory relations between music and society in Freetown's past and present. Blending anthropological thought with ethnographic and historical research, it explores the conjunctures of music practices and social affiliations a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden, The Netherlands :
African Studies Centre,
[2012]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- pt. I. The music/society nexus : some introductory reflections and observations
- 2. Introducing the city and its sounds
- 3. Music and society : a preliminary theoretical outline
- 4. Revisiting methods of socio-sonic inquiry
- pt. II. From class to mass : Freetown's music and society in historical perspective
- 5. Introduction
- 6. Early developments : the 19th century
- 7. Socio-musical approximations : 1900s to 1930s
- 8. The heydays of local popular music : 1940s to 1970s
- 9. Popular music in the time of decay : the 1980s and 1990s
- 10. Post-war boom and post-election decline
- 11. Conclusion : beyond the ephemerality of style
- pt. III. Disconnections : social dynamics in the spaces of music
- 12. Introduction
- 13. (Night)life at the edge of chaos
- 14. The seasonality of music
- 15. Building, binding and dividing
- 16. A topography of Freetown's social imaginary
- 17. The Politics of price, prestige and consumption
- 18. The king and his followers
- 19. Conclusion : dis/connections
- pt. IV. Topia of utopias
- 20. Dreams vs. reality
- References.