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Title:Making the modern: contestations over 'muziki wa dansi' in Tanganyika, ca. 1945-1961
Author:Suriano, MariaISNI
Year:2011
Periodical:African Studies (ISSN 1469-2872)
Volume:70
Issue:3
Pages:393-414
Language:English
Geographic term:Tanzania
Subjects:popular music
dance
External link:https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2011.628800
Abstract:This article focuses on 'muziki wa dansi' (dance music, i.e., 'urban jazz' and ballroom dancing), a genre that became extraordinarily popular in post-1945 Tanganyika (present-day Tanzania), primarily in towns. While musicians and aficionados, mainly 'young' townspeople, embraced this music and related dances as a means for shaping cosmopolitan and 'modern' identities, most African 'elders' condemned ballroom dancing and dancers' conduct. By drawing on oral sources, combined with the Swahili press, this article seeks to grasp conflicting views of modernity made visible through the study of 'muziki wa dansi'. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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