Joyce Nyairo
Biographic Data
| ID | 78252 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joyce Nyairo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joyce |
| FAMILY NAME | Nyairo |
| SIGNATURE | NYAIRO J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Moi University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Boda Boda (R)age
Nikushike namna gani? (How should I hold you?) The questions that women ask motorbike taxis operators are just one of the many ways that this new mode of transportation in both urban and rural Kenya have become a vehicle for laughter, outrage, (in)dignity and wealth. This paper focuses on moments of delight in the danger-filled work of motorbike taxi operators in Kenya. How much joy do boda boda (motorbike taxis) generate in modern Kenya? The del…
Inscribing memory, healing a nation
The violence in the wake of the Kenya general elections in December 2007 found one of its most profoundly haunting, provocative and creative expressions in a photographic text called Kenya Burning. This article renders a reading of photographs in Kenya Burning in an attempt to lay bare the complex sphere of multiple narratives that speak to the issues of what ails Kenya. We argue that as an artistic piece of work, the picture-text represents the …
Kenyan gospel sountracks
This paper traces the growth and nature of gospel music in Kenya. It argues that regardless of whether gospel music is defined by structure or content it is a genre that cannot be understood outside the complex matrix of transcultural links between Africa, Europe and America – colonial and contemporary. As an interminably hybrid form, modern gospel music in Kenya appropriates the sonic and lyrical texture of a variety of genres – from European ch…
(Re)Configuring the City
A significant share of the popular music created by youthful urban groups in Kenya over the last ten years generates various discourses of the capital city, Nairobi. My analysis of some of this output proceeds by showing how the relationship between cultural forms, such as music, and places is symbiotic. Places help to shape cultural forms and cultural forms are in turn crucial in mediating our understandings of spaces and places (Connell and Gib…
Zilizopendwa ”1
The past continues to speak to us. But it no longer addresses us a simple factual “past”, since our relation to it, like the child's relation to the mother, is always-already “after the break”. It
Popular music, popular politics
Journal Article Popular music, popular politics: Unbwogable and the idioms of freedom in Kenyan popular music Get access Joyce Nyairo, Joyce Nyairo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar James Ogude James Ogude Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 104, Issue 415, April 2005, Pages 225–249, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi012 Published: 01 April 2005
Reading the referents’
Cultural practices such as music can be read for the ways in which they both indicate and formulate contexts. This reading of contemporary Kenyan popular music focuses on the mobility and diffusion of popular music in order to analyse intertextuality in local songtexts. The data is provided by two seminal chart hits — Hardstone's “Uhiki” (Wedding; 1997) and Gidi Gidi Maji Maji's “Ting badi malo” (Lift up your arms; 1999). The argument proceeds by…
Specificities
2003). Specificities: Popular Music and the Negotiation of Contemporary Kenyan Identity: The Example of Nairobi City Ensemble. Social Identities: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 383-400
Specificities
Popular music, popular politics
Journal Article Popular music, popular politics: Unbwogable and the idioms of freedom in Kenyan popular music Get access Joyce Nyairo, Joyce Nyairo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar James Ogude James Ogude Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 104, Issue 415, April 2005, Pages 225–249, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi012 Published: 01 April 2005
Specificities
2003). Specificities: Popular Music and the Negotiation of Contemporary Kenyan Identity: The Example of Nairobi City Ensemble. Social Identities: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 383-400
Reading the referents’
Cultural practices such as music can be read for the ways in which they both indicate and formulate contexts. This reading of contemporary Kenyan popular music focuses on the mobility and diffusion of popular music in order to analyse intertextuality in local songtexts. The data is provided by two seminal chart hits — Hardstone's “Uhiki” (Wedding; 1997) and Gidi Gidi Maji Maji's “Ting badi malo” (Lift up your arms; 1999). The argument proceeds by…
Inscribing memory, healing a nation
The violence in the wake of the Kenya general elections in December 2007 found one of its most profoundly haunting, provocative and creative expressions in a photographic text called Kenya Burning. This article renders a reading of photographs in Kenya Burning in an attempt to lay bare the complex sphere of multiple narratives that speak to the issues of what ails Kenya. We argue that as an artistic piece of work, the picture-text represents the …
Specificities
Kenyan gospel sountracks
This paper traces the growth and nature of gospel music in Kenya. It argues that regardless of whether gospel music is defined by structure or content it is a genre that cannot be understood outside the complex matrix of transcultural links between Africa, Europe and America – colonial and contemporary. As an interminably hybrid form, modern gospel music in Kenya appropriates the sonic and lyrical texture of a variety of genres – from European ch…
Zilizopendwa ”1
The past continues to speak to us. But it no longer addresses us a simple factual “past”, since our relation to it, like the child's relation to the mother, is always-already “after the break”. It
The Boda Boda (R)age
Nikushike namna gani? (How should I hold you?) The questions that women ask motorbike taxis operators are just one of the many ways that this new mode of transportation in both urban and rural Kenya have become a vehicle for laughter, outrage, (in)dignity and wealth. This paper focuses on moments of delight in the danger-filled work of motorbike taxi operators in Kenya. How much joy do boda boda (motorbike taxis) generate in modern Kenya? The del…
Specificities
2003). Specificities: Popular Music and the Negotiation of Contemporary Kenyan Identity: The Example of Nairobi City Ensemble. Social Identities: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 383-400
Specificities
Reading the referents’
Cultural practices such as music can be read for the ways in which they both indicate and formulate contexts. This reading of contemporary Kenyan popular music focuses on the mobility and diffusion of popular music in order to analyse intertextuality in local songtexts. The data is provided by two seminal chart hits — Hardstone's “Uhiki” (Wedding; 1997) and Gidi Gidi Maji Maji's “Ting badi malo” (Lift up your arms; 1999). The argument proceeds by…
Zilizopendwa ”1
The past continues to speak to us. But it no longer addresses us a simple factual “past”, since our relation to it, like the child's relation to the mother, is always-already “after the break”. It
Popular music, popular politics
Journal Article Popular music, popular politics: Unbwogable and the idioms of freedom in Kenyan popular music Get access Joyce Nyairo, Joyce Nyairo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar James Ogude James Ogude Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 104, Issue 415, April 2005, Pages 225–249, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi012 Published: 01 April 2005
(Re)Configuring the City
A significant share of the popular music created by youthful urban groups in Kenya over the last ten years generates various discourses of the capital city, Nairobi. My analysis of some of this output proceeds by showing how the relationship between cultural forms, such as music, and places is symbiotic. Places help to shape cultural forms and cultural forms are in turn crucial in mediating our understandings of spaces and places (Connell and Gib…
Kenyan gospel sountracks
This paper traces the growth and nature of gospel music in Kenya. It argues that regardless of whether gospel music is defined by structure or content it is a genre that cannot be understood outside the complex matrix of transcultural links between Africa, Europe and America – colonial and contemporary. As an interminably hybrid form, modern gospel music in Kenya appropriates the sonic and lyrical texture of a variety of genres – from European ch…
Inscribing memory, healing a nation
The violence in the wake of the Kenya general elections in December 2007 found one of its most profoundly haunting, provocative and creative expressions in a photographic text called Kenya Burning. This article renders a reading of photographs in Kenya Burning in an attempt to lay bare the complex sphere of multiple narratives that speak to the issues of what ails Kenya. We argue that as an artistic piece of work, the picture-text represents the …
The Boda Boda (R)age
Nikushike namna gani? (How should I hold you?) The questions that women ask motorbike taxis operators are just one of the many ways that this new mode of transportation in both urban and rural Kenya have become a vehicle for laughter, outrage, (in)dignity and wealth. This paper focuses on moments of delight in the danger-filled work of motorbike taxi operators in Kenya. How much joy do boda boda (motorbike taxis) generate in modern Kenya? The del…
Sociology (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Music History and Culture (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (4 works)