“Indépendance Cha Chaâ€: African Pop Music since the Independence Era

Hauke Dorsch ()

Africa Spectrum, 2010, vol. 45, issue 3, pages 131-146

Abstract: Investigating why Latin American music came to be the soundtrack of the independence era, this contribution offers an overview of musical developments and cultural politics in certain sub-Saharan African countries since the 1960s. Focusing first on how the governments of newly independent African states used musical styles and musicians to support their nation-building projects, the article then looks at musicians’ more recent perspectives on the independence era.

Keywords: music; socio-cultural change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-03
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