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Performing religion : negotiating past and present in Kwaya music of Tanzania
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ISBN: 9004334327 Year: 2003 Publisher: Amsterdam, Netherlands ; New York, New York : Rodopi,

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Performing Religion considers issues related to Tanzanian kwayas [KiSwahili, “choirs”], musical communities most often affiliated with Christian churches, and the music they make, known as nyimbo za kwaya [choir songs] or muziki wa kwaya [choir music]. The analytical approach adopted in this text focusing on the communities of kwaya is one frequently used in the fields of ethnomusicology, religious studies, culture studies, and philosophy for understanding diversified social processes-consciousness. By invoking consciousness an attempt is made to represent the ways seemingly disparate traditions coexist, thrive, and continue within contemporary kwaya performance. An East African kwaya is a community that gathers several times each week to define its spirituality musically. Members of kwayas come together to sing, to pray, to support individual members in times of need, and to both learn and pass along new and inherited faith traditions. Kwayas negotiate between multiple musical traditions or just as often they reject an inherited musical system while others may continue to engage musical repertoires from both Europe and Africa. Contemporary kwayas comfortably coexist in the urban musical soundscape of coastal Dar es Salaam along with jazz dance bands, taarab ensembles, ngoma performance groups, Hindi film music, rap, reggae, and the constant influx of recorded American and European popular musics. This ethnography calls into question terms frequently used to draw tight boundaries around the study of the arts in African expressive religious cultures. Such divisions of the arts present well-defended boundaries and borders that are not sufficient for understanding the change, adaptation, preservation, and integration that occur within a Tanzanian kwaya . Boundaries break down within the everyday performance of East African kwayas , such as Kwaya ya Upendo [“The Love Choir”] in Dar es Salaam, as repertoires, traditions, histories, and cultures interact within a performance of social identity.


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Culture of AIDS in Africa : Hope and Healing Through Music and the Arts
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ISBN: 0199744475 0190268182 9780199781362 0199781362 9780199744473 9780199744480 0199744483 1283303205 9786613303202 Year: 2011 Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The Culture of AIDS in Africa presents 30 chapters offering a multifaceted, nuanced, and deeply affective portrait of the relationship between HIV/AIDS and the arts in Africa, including source material such as song lyrics and interviews.

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78.83 --- 78.32.2 --- AIDS (Disease) --- Music --- AIDS (Disease) and the arts --- Humanities --- Lentivirus Infections --- Culture --- Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral --- Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes --- Slow Virus Diseases --- Virus Diseases --- Sociology --- Immune System Diseases --- Sexually Transmitted Diseases --- Anthropology, Cultural --- Retroviridae Infections --- Diseases --- RNA Virus Infections --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome --- HIV Infections --- Cultural Characteristics --- Art --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Music Philosophy --- Infections, RNA Virus --- Infection, RNA Virus --- RNA Virus Infection --- Virus Infection, RNA --- Virus Infections, RNA --- Infections, Retroviridae --- Infections, Retrovirus --- XMRV Infection --- Xenotropic MuLV-related Virus Infection --- Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-related Virus Infection --- Retrovirus Infections --- 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Shadows in the Field : New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology
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ISBN: 1423741285 1602561486 9781423741282 1280453117 9781280453113 9786610453115 661045311X 0195109104 0195109112 9780195109108 9780195109115 9781602561489 9780198026891 0198026897 Year: 1997 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press, USA

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What are the new directions in ethnomusicological fieldwork? What do we see when we acknowledge the shadows we cast in the field? Will fieldwork continue as an integral part of ethnomusicological theory and method? Glancing forward and backward, the authors in this collection explore a rangeof issues that can help ethnomusicologists and those who study human experience and creativity to conceptualize the nature of fieldwork. This is the first book by ethnomusicologists to consider fieldwork as an issue-laden practice, rather than as a methodology requiring a prescriptive manual. Thecontributors challenge the very notion of fieldwork: its goals, the nature of knowledge gained, and the place of fieldwork in historical studies. Until now the focus in ethnomusicological writing and teaching centered around analyses and ethnographic representations of musical cultures. This booksignals a new fieldwork, shifting the balance away from the data-collecting model toward an approach that is reflexive, humanistic, and experiential. It makes provocative reading for all fieldworkers, those in ethnomusicology as well as anthropology, sociology, folklore, area studies, linguistics,and other ethnographic disciplines


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Shadows in the field : new perspectives for fieldwork in ethnomusicology
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ISBN: 0199886709 1281868272 9786611868277 0199717192 9780199717194 0195324951 9780195324952 019532496X 9780195324969 9780195324952 9780195324969 0197729053 Year: 2023 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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The contributors consider fieldwork as an issue-laden practice rather than as a methodology requiring a prescriptive manual, challenging the very notion of fieldwork, its goals and its place in historical studies.

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