Africa in stereo, modernism, music, and pan-African solidarity, Tsitsi Ella Jaji
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Africa in stereo, modernism, music, and pan-African solidarity, Tsitsi Ella Jaji
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Africa in stereo
Medium
electronic resource /
Responsibility statement
Tsitsi Ella Jaji
Sub title
modernism, music, and pan-African solidarity
Summary
Africa In Stereo examines the role that African American music has played in the pan-Africanist imagination since the end of the nineteenth century., Africa In Stereo examines the role that African American music has played in the pan-Africanist imagination since the end of the nineteenth century. Throughout, Jaji marshals a wide array of critical, archival, literary, visual, and sonic sources to craft an argument centered on the stereophonic echoes between three sites on the African continent emblematic of pan-Africanism (Ghana, Senegal, and South Africa) and black musical cultures in the US (as well as few other places on the diasporic landscape). Rather than take a purely musical tack that traces the influence of African American music on musical repertoires from Ghana, Senegal, and South Africa, Africa In Stereo beautifully shows how a US black popular musical genres inspired a host of writers and filmmakers such as Ousmane Sembene, John Akomfrah, Sol Plaatje, Lopold Senghor, K. Anyidoho, Charlotte Maxeke, Ken Bugul, as well as the glossy visual languages found in the early magazines Bingo (Senegal) and Zonk! (South Africa)
Target audience
specialized
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Creator
Subject
- World music & regional styles
- African history
- Cultural studies
- Comparative literature + African and American
- Music in literature
- Theory of music & musicology
- History
- 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
- Modernism (Literature) -- Africa
- Comparative literature + American and African
- 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100
- Anthropology
- Electronic books
- Music + Social aspects -- Africa
- African literature + History and criticism
- Social & cultural history
- Africa
- Literature: history & criticism
- Literature
- Musical films + History and criticism
Author
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Creator1
- Genre2
- Subject20
- World music & regional styles
- African history
- Cultural studies
- Comparative literature + African and American
- Music in literature
- Theory of music & musicology
- History
- 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
- Modernism (Literature) -- Africa
- Comparative literature + American and African
- 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100
- Anthropology
- Electronic books
- Music + Social aspects -- Africa
- African literature + History and criticism
- Social & cultural history
- Africa
- Literature: history & criticism
- Literature
- Musical films + History and criticism
- Author1