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Author Moorman, Marissa Jean

Title Intonations : a social history of music and nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to recent times / Marissa J. Moorman
Published Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 290 pages) : illustrations
Series New African histories series
New African histories series
Contents Musseques and urban culture -- In the days of bota fogo: culture and the early nationalist struggle, 1947-61 -- Dueling bands and good girls: gender and music in Luanda's musseques,1961-75 -- Ngongo jami (my suffering): lyrics, daily life, and social space, 1956-74 -- Radios, turntables, and vinyl: technology and the imagined community, 1961-75 -- The hiatus: music, dissent, and nation building after independence, 1975-90s
Summary Intonations tells the story of how Angola's urban residents in the late colonial period (roughly 1945-74) used music to talk back to their colonial oppressors and, more importantly, to define what it meant to be Angolan and what they hoped to gain from independence. A compilation of Angolan music is included in CD format. Marissa J. Moorman presents a social and cultural history of the relationship between Angolan culture and politics. She argues that it was in and through popular urban music, produced mainly in the musseques (urban shantytowns) of the capital city, Luanda, that Angolans for
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-273) and index
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Subject Music -- Social aspects -- Angola -- Luanda (Luanda)
Music -- Political aspects -- Angola
Nationalism in music.
Angola.
popular music.
musicians.
nationalism.
social history.
1950-1999.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Music and war
Music -- Political aspects
Music -- Social aspects
Nationalism in music
Musik
Musikleben
Music -- Social aspects -- Angola -- Luanda (Luanda)
Music -- Political aspects -- Angola.
Nationalism in music.
SUBJECT Angola -- History -- Revolution, 1961-1975 -- Music and the revolution
Angola -- History -- Civil War, 1975-2002 -- Music and the war
Subject Angola
Angola -- Luanda (Luanda)
Luanda
Angola
Angola -- History -- Revolution, 1961-1975 -- Music and the revolution.
Angola -- History -- Civil War, 1975-2002 -- Music and the war.
Angola -- Bürgerkrieg.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008026805
ISBN 9780821443040
0821443046