Aaron Louis Rosenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 4769642 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aaron Louis Rosenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aaron Louis |
| FAMILY NAME | Rosenberg |
| SIGNATURE | ROSENBERG A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | El Colegio de México |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7989-741X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Narratives of Ujamaa and the constitution of the Tanzanian nation through the verbal art of Euphrase Kezilahabi and Marijani Rajabu
Euphrase Kezilahabi's novel Dunia Uwanja wa Fujo (1976) carries on a debate with other Tanzanian texts about the forced migration and economic displacement being carried out at the time of its composition. Songs such as "Masudi" (n.d.) and "Mwana Mpotevu" (1978) by Marijani Rajabu, together with a host of others such as the song "Gezaulole" by Urafiki Jazz, participate in discussions, carried out across genres, demonstrating the ambiguous positio…
Zairo-Congolese Musicians and the Sound of Assimilation in East Africa
This chapter investigates the phenomenon of emigrant Zairo-Congolese musicians in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania and their attempts to integrate into these societies through a variety of strategies that overtly and covertly employ political elements. Remmy Ongala, Samba Mapangala, and the members of Orchestra Maquis all spent time in one of these countries and shaped their sound and messages in these settings, politics being a significant part of th…
African Filmmaking
Kenneth Harrow's new edited volume on African filmmaking is a collection of essays that in a sense functions in a fluid and manifestly effective way. To start with, the volume's editor makes clear to us that we should not expect the essays contained in the book to provide a complete presentation of cinema throughout the African continent, as such would obviously be difficult to achieve in any single volume. Instead, each one of the five extensive…
El puño suena igual en todo el mundo
La violencia doméstica contra las mujeres es una problemática frecuentemente invisibilizada por "culturas del silencio" y ante la cual la canción popular ha servido como una forma artística poderosa para exponer esta realidad en ámbitos públicos y activos. México y Tanzania son dos ejemplos de ello, por lo que se presenta un análisis contrastivo entre dos canciones: "Me golpeaste tanto anoche" de México y "Kidogo Kidogo" (Dale suave) de Tanzania.…
El Puño Suena Igual en Todo El Mundo
Uno de los aspectos más problemáticos de la violencia contra las mujeres en contextos domésticos es la presencia de culturas del silencio que rodean y esconden estas acciones reprobables. La canción popular es una respuesta que constituye un intento de poner en evidencia la realidad del abuso doméstico en foros públicos y activos. No se puede decir de manera categórica que esta expresión artística será capaz de detener la violencia intergénero; n…
Style in African Literature
This anthology represents a valuable contribution to scholarly explorations of stylistics and its viability as a tool to be used in the elucidation of the literary and socio-cultural aspects inherent in African literatures and oral forms of expression. As is made clear in the introduction by Russell West-Pavlov and J. K. S. Makokha, the collection attempts to cover as much of the topic in geographic, generic, and theoretical terms as possible, li…
Grano a grano llena la gallina el buche
Uno de los problemas más recurrentes que han enfrentado las poblaciones africanas ha sido el grado en que se han visto envueltas en redes de autoenriquecimiento que obstaculizan muchos de los procesos esenciales de la vida cotidiana. Kenia, en el este del continente, constituye uno de los ejemplos más chocantes que hay en ese sentido: los artistas kenianos gastan su energía y talento en el intento por dejar al descubierto la naturaleza de la corr…
Mali Hushinda Radhi
Mwenye? Muhindi? Mwafrika? Creative encounters with Afro-Asians in Tanzania, Zambia and Kenya
Many popular African performing artists use their music to create a sense of belonging in order to incorporate the largest number of listeners as audience members and therefore increase the community of listeners and fans that their music attracts. At the same time, however, there are also strategies employed to create cohesion through the exclusion of groups that can be identified as outsiders or even foreigners. One of the most fiercely contest…
Negotiating Afropolitanism
This collection of essays is a welcome addition to African scholarship on narrative arts. Although certain parts of the volume suffer from problems that could have been easily solved, the essays do, nonetheless, represent significant interventions into complex issues surrounding the reconstitution of identities in African, primarily urbanized contexts. The volume also attempts to move away from the dominance of discourses about Africa from Europe…
Traditions, Trajectories and Transformative Migrations
Traditions, Trajectories and Transformative Migrations: The Multifarious Diasporic Contextualities of Nair, Nazareth and Vassanji’s Fictions." Journal of the African Literature Association, 6(2), pp. 61–82
Mnanionyesha Njia”
El estudio académico sobre el arte verbal africano suele exhibir un sesgo polarizante hacia ciertos tipos de expresión artística. No obstante, las canciones populares, que gozan de amplia distribución y consumo y se discuten mucho en sus respectivos países de origen, son accesibles para los africanos mismos en formas que el arte literario y el arte verbal tradicional no. Asimismo, interactúan con formas literarias de maneras importantes. La canci…
Living for the city
One of the neglected areas of globalization studies is the movement of people within countries. In post-colonial African nations and the antebellum United States, migration patterns have often been to urban areas. Two creative works which bear witness to these relocations are Richard Wright's novel Native Son and Marijani Rajabu's popular song 'Masudi'. Both works confront the alienation and incarceration of young black men who find themselves un…
Form and Theme as Unifying Principles in Tanzanian Verbal Art
Recent research by James Ogude and Joyce Nyairo demonstrates that the debate surrounding the viability of songs as ‘serious cultural production’ (1) has long been hampered by proscriptive attitudes
Coming to Terms
The Wordy Worlds of Popular Music in Eastern and Southern Africa
Language-in-education policy in Africa is replete with debate regarding the use of standard African languages as part of mother-tongue education. An issue inadequately addressed within this debate is the role and function of urban vernaculars which have become “the” mother tongue of the greater part of Africa's population. Using data from the lyrics of popular music from eastern and southern African songwriters as an instance of ground-level lang…
Conversaciones con la muerte en México y África Oriental
En algunas naciones de África oriental como Tanzania y Uganda existen discursos sobre la muerte que se expresan a través de formas artísticas, tales como las canciones populares y las historias transmitidas oralmente. Lo mismo ocurre en algunas zonas de México. Las narrativas musicales y folclóricas de estas regiones en conjunto y relacionadas entre sí, pueden mostrarnos lecciones valiosas acerca de la manera en que sus habitantes desarrollan es…
Islam, Ethics, Revolt
Book Review| January 01 2009 Islam, Ethics, Revolt: Politics and Piety in Francophone West African and Maghreb Narrative Islam, Ethics, Revolt: Politics and Piety in Francophone West African and Maghreb NarrativeWehrs, Donald R. Aaron L. Rosenberg Aaron L. Rosenberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2009) 46 (2): 428–431. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659724 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twit…
Making the Case for Popular Songs in East Africa
The relative exclusion of popular song vis-à-vis other forms of expression in scholarship on African literature and oral verbal art is a serious oversight that needs to be reconsidered and rectified. This article constitutes a comparative analysis of two wordsmiths from East Africa whose works embody the salient relationships and overlapping tendencies of works considered "high" literary art and popular songs, which are thought to constitute a di…
The Literature of Song
(2007). The Literature of Song: Kantai and Wainaina’s “Joka” as Syncretic Multi-Text. Journal of the African Literature Association: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 108-128
Making the Case for Popular Songs in East Africa
The relative exclusion of popular song vis-à-vis other forms of expression in scholarship on African literature and oral verbal art is a serious oversight that needs to be reconsidered and rectified. This article constitutes a comparative analysis of two wordsmiths from East Africa whose works embody the salient relationships and overlapping tendencies of works considered "high" literary art and popular songs, which are thought to constitute a di…
The Wordy Worlds of Popular Music in Eastern and Southern Africa
Language-in-education policy in Africa is replete with debate regarding the use of standard African languages as part of mother-tongue education. An issue inadequately addressed within this debate is the role and function of urban vernaculars which have become “the” mother tongue of the greater part of Africa's population. Using data from the lyrics of popular music from eastern and southern African songwriters as an instance of ground-level lang…
Form and Theme as Unifying Principles in Tanzanian Verbal Art
Recent research by James Ogude and Joyce Nyairo demonstrates that the debate surrounding the viability of songs as ‘serious cultural production’ (1) has long been hampered by proscriptive attitudes
The Literature of Song
(2007). The Literature of Song: Kantai and Wainaina’s “Joka” as Syncretic Multi-Text. Journal of the African Literature Association: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 108-128
Living for the city
One of the neglected areas of globalization studies is the movement of people within countries. In post-colonial African nations and the antebellum United States, migration patterns have often been to urban areas. Two creative works which bear witness to these relocations are Richard Wright's novel Native Son and Marijani Rajabu's popular song 'Masudi'. Both works confront the alienation and incarceration of young black men who find themselves un…
The Literature of Song
(2007). The Literature of Song: Kantai and Wainaina’s “Joka” as Syncretic Multi-Text. Journal of the African Literature Association: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 108-128
Making the Case for Popular Songs in East Africa
The relative exclusion of popular song vis-à-vis other forms of expression in scholarship on African literature and oral verbal art is a serious oversight that needs to be reconsidered and rectified. This article constitutes a comparative analysis of two wordsmiths from East Africa whose works embody the salient relationships and overlapping tendencies of works considered "high" literary art and popular songs, which are thought to constitute a di…
Islam, Ethics, Revolt
Book Review| January 01 2009 Islam, Ethics, Revolt: Politics and Piety in Francophone West African and Maghreb Narrative Islam, Ethics, Revolt: Politics and Piety in Francophone West African and Maghreb NarrativeWehrs, Donald R. Aaron L. Rosenberg Aaron L. Rosenberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2009) 46 (2): 428–431. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659724 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twit…
Coming to Terms
The Wordy Worlds of Popular Music in Eastern and Southern Africa
Language-in-education policy in Africa is replete with debate regarding the use of standard African languages as part of mother-tongue education. An issue inadequately addressed within this debate is the role and function of urban vernaculars which have become “the” mother tongue of the greater part of Africa's population. Using data from the lyrics of popular music from eastern and southern African songwriters as an instance of ground-level lang…
Conversaciones con la muerte en México y África Oriental
En algunas naciones de África oriental como Tanzania y Uganda existen discursos sobre la muerte que se expresan a través de formas artísticas, tales como las canciones populares y las historias transmitidas oralmente. Lo mismo ocurre en algunas zonas de México. Las narrativas musicales y folclóricas de estas regiones en conjunto y relacionadas entre sí, pueden mostrarnos lecciones valiosas acerca de la manera en que sus habitantes desarrollan es…
Form and Theme as Unifying Principles in Tanzanian Verbal Art
Recent research by James Ogude and Joyce Nyairo demonstrates that the debate surrounding the viability of songs as ‘serious cultural production’ (1) has long been hampered by proscriptive attitudes
Traditions, Trajectories and Transformative Migrations
Traditions, Trajectories and Transformative Migrations: The Multifarious Diasporic Contextualities of Nair, Nazareth and Vassanji’s Fictions." Journal of the African Literature Association, 6(2), pp. 61–82
Mnanionyesha Njia”
El estudio académico sobre el arte verbal africano suele exhibir un sesgo polarizante hacia ciertos tipos de expresión artística. No obstante, las canciones populares, que gozan de amplia distribución y consumo y se discuten mucho en sus respectivos países de origen, son accesibles para los africanos mismos en formas que el arte literario y el arte verbal tradicional no. Asimismo, interactúan con formas literarias de maneras importantes. La canci…
Living for the city
One of the neglected areas of globalization studies is the movement of people within countries. In post-colonial African nations and the antebellum United States, migration patterns have often been to urban areas. Two creative works which bear witness to these relocations are Richard Wright's novel Native Son and Marijani Rajabu's popular song 'Masudi'. Both works confront the alienation and incarceration of young black men who find themselves un…
Mali Hushinda Radhi
Mwenye? Muhindi? Mwafrika? Creative encounters with Afro-Asians in Tanzania, Zambia and Kenya
Many popular African performing artists use their music to create a sense of belonging in order to incorporate the largest number of listeners as audience members and therefore increase the community of listeners and fans that their music attracts. At the same time, however, there are also strategies employed to create cohesion through the exclusion of groups that can be identified as outsiders or even foreigners. One of the most fiercely contest…
Negotiating Afropolitanism
This collection of essays is a welcome addition to African scholarship on narrative arts. Although certain parts of the volume suffer from problems that could have been easily solved, the essays do, nonetheless, represent significant interventions into complex issues surrounding the reconstitution of identities in African, primarily urbanized contexts. The volume also attempts to move away from the dominance of discourses about Africa from Europe…
Grano a grano llena la gallina el buche
Uno de los problemas más recurrentes que han enfrentado las poblaciones africanas ha sido el grado en que se han visto envueltas en redes de autoenriquecimiento que obstaculizan muchos de los procesos esenciales de la vida cotidiana. Kenia, en el este del continente, constituye uno de los ejemplos más chocantes que hay en ese sentido: los artistas kenianos gastan su energía y talento en el intento por dejar al descubierto la naturaleza de la corr…
El puño suena igual en todo el mundo
La violencia doméstica contra las mujeres es una problemática frecuentemente invisibilizada por "culturas del silencio" y ante la cual la canción popular ha servido como una forma artística poderosa para exponer esta realidad en ámbitos públicos y activos. México y Tanzania son dos ejemplos de ello, por lo que se presenta un análisis contrastivo entre dos canciones: "Me golpeaste tanto anoche" de México y "Kidogo Kidogo" (Dale suave) de Tanzania.…
El Puño Suena Igual en Todo El Mundo
Uno de los aspectos más problemáticos de la violencia contra las mujeres en contextos domésticos es la presencia de culturas del silencio que rodean y esconden estas acciones reprobables. La canción popular es una respuesta que constituye un intento de poner en evidencia la realidad del abuso doméstico en foros públicos y activos. No se puede decir de manera categórica que esta expresión artística será capaz de detener la violencia intergénero; n…
Style in African Literature
This anthology represents a valuable contribution to scholarly explorations of stylistics and its viability as a tool to be used in the elucidation of the literary and socio-cultural aspects inherent in African literatures and oral forms of expression. As is made clear in the introduction by Russell West-Pavlov and J. K. S. Makokha, the collection attempts to cover as much of the topic in geographic, generic, and theoretical terms as possible, li…
Zairo-Congolese Musicians and the Sound of Assimilation in East Africa
This chapter investigates the phenomenon of emigrant Zairo-Congolese musicians in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania and their attempts to integrate into these societies through a variety of strategies that overtly and covertly employ political elements. Remmy Ongala, Samba Mapangala, and the members of Orchestra Maquis all spent time in one of these countries and shaped their sound and messages in these settings, politics being a significant part of th…
African Filmmaking
Kenneth Harrow's new edited volume on African filmmaking is a collection of essays that in a sense functions in a fluid and manifestly effective way. To start with, the volume's editor makes clear to us that we should not expect the essays contained in the book to provide a complete presentation of cinema throughout the African continent, as such would obviously be difficult to achieve in any single volume. Instead, each one of the five extensive…
Narratives of Ujamaa and the constitution of the Tanzanian nation through the verbal art of Euphrase Kezilahabi and Marijani Rajabu
Euphrase Kezilahabi's novel Dunia Uwanja wa Fujo (1976) carries on a debate with other Tanzanian texts about the forced migration and economic displacement being carried out at the time of its composition. Songs such as "Masudi" (n.d.) and "Mwana Mpotevu" (1978) by Marijani Rajabu, together with a host of others such as the song "Gezaulole" by Urafiki Jazz, participate in discussions, carried out across genres, demonstrating the ambiguous positio…
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