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Title: | Dueling Bands and Good Girls: Gender, Music, and Nation in Luanda's Musseques, 1961-1905 |
Author: | Moorman, Marissa J. |
Year: | 2004 |
Periodical: | International Journal of African Historical Studies |
Volume: | 37 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 255-288 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Angola |
Subjects: | nationalism gender relations music History and Exploration Women's Issues Architecture and the Arts Urbanization and Migration Historical/Biographical arts |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/4129009 |
Abstract: | The author explores the relationship between gender and the musical production of the nation in Luanda's 'musseques' (urban shantytowns). Urban Africans took advantage of reforms in colonial policy instituted in Angola between 1961 and 1974 to improve their daily lives, carve out new cultural spaces, and create new artistic practices. In so doing, they shaped the cultural basis of the nation and thus implicated themselves in the political project of nationalism after 1974. The author argues that the gendered dynamic of musical production and of the music scene helps account for a shift in the involvement of women as cultural producers and the ascendancy of a masculinist ethic at the moment when music became the salient cultural practice. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |