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Title:Dueling Bands and Good Girls: Gender, Music, and Nation in Luanda's Musseques, 1961-1905
Author:Moorman, Marissa J.ISNI
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]
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