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Askew, Kelly Michelle.

Performing the nation : Swahili music and cultural politics in Tanzania / Kelly M. Askew. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2002. - xviii, 417 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) - Chicago studies in ethnomusicology .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-375), discography (p. 377-402), and indexes.

Arts of governance -- Tanga, Tanganyika, Tanzania -- Of ginger ale and orange soda -- Weighty gestures, significant glances : taarab performance and the constitution of social relations -- Cultural revolution in Tanzania? -- Competing agendas : the production of Tanzanian national culture -- Of mwanyas and multipartyism : taarab performance and the Tanzanian state -- Conclusion : cultural policy by and for the people.

ISBN: 0226029808 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0226029816 (paperback : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2001008414

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Swahili-speaking peoples--Music--History and criticism.--Tanzania
Taarab (Music)--History and criticism.--Tanzania

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Tanzania--Cultural policy.

LC Class. No.: ML3760 / .A84 2002

Dewey Class. No.: 306.4/84