Imani Sanga
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 105534 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Imani Sanga |
| PRENOMES | Imani |
| SOBRENOME | Sanga |
| ASSINATURA | SANGA I |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Dar es Salaam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5830-4419 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Musical Figuring of Dar es Salaam Urban Marginality in Mbogo’s Swahili Novel Watoto wa Maman’tilie
Watoto wa Maman’tilie (lit. Children of a Woman Street Food Vendor), a Swahili novel by a Tanzanian writer Emmanuel Mbogo, narrates the horrendous experiences of children who are forced to drop out of school and become street children. The novel also narrates their survival strategies in the periphery of the city. This article discusses how the novel uses musical figures including songs by renowned African popular musicians, Swahili local dances …
Musical figures of enslavement and resistance in Semzaba's Kiswahili playTendehogo
This article examines the use of musical figures in a Kiswahili play, Tendehogo. Written by an eminent Tanzanian playwright named Edwin Semzaba, the play recounts how slave trade was conducted by Arab traders in East Africa during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It tells about the experiences of African slave captives being driven by an Arab slave trader away from their homeland in the interior of Tanganyika to the coast. This forced est…
Sonic figures of heroism and the 1891 Hehe-German war in Mulokozi's novelNgome ya Mianzi
Shortly after the 1884–85 Berlin Conference, Germany invaded and fought a number of wars with Tanganyika’s local chiefdoms in order to subject these territories to its colonial rule. In 1891 the Hehe people, who dwelt in Iringa region in the southern part of today’s Tanzania, fought to resist the invading German troops and succeeded in killing the German commander, Emil von Zelewski. Using both fictional and historical persons, events and locatio…
The Antinomies of Transgressive Gender Acts in Professor Jay’s Rap Music Video “Zali la Mentali” in Tanzania
This article examines the transgressive gender acts in a rap music video by Tanzanian musician Professor Jay entitled “Zali la Mentali”. It argues that, on the one hand, this music video subverts established gender norms and the dominance of the male figure by representing a female character who displays more power and agency in comparison with her male counterpart while, on the other hand, it also participates in maintaining and propagating male…
Musical figures and the figuring of Tanzania's social life in the poems of Kulikoyela K. Kahigi
Mugyabuso M. Mulokozi and Kulikoyela K. Kahigi’s collection Malenga wa Bara (Poets from the Inland), first published in 1976 and reprinted in 1995, includes a number of poems by Kahigi in which music instruments, musical styles and music-making are used as poetic devices to represent various experiences drawn from the social world. This article discusses the ways in which musical figures (i.e. sonic or musical objects) are used in these poems and…
Musical figures and the archiving of African identity in selected poems in Tanzania
This article discusses two Kiswahili poems, namely “Wimbo Uliosahaulika” (A forgotten song) by Mugyabuso Mulokozi and “Ngoma ya Kimya” (A dance of silence) by Euphrase Kezilahabi, and examines how these poems use musical figures to archive African or Tanzanian identities. The article argues that although both poems perform a postcolonial act of subverting the hegemonic position of Western culture amongst Tanzanians, these two poems engage in this…
Antinomies of African aesthetics and the impulses of aesthetic relativism
This article examines the antinomies arising due to the deployment of the concept of African aesthetics in three essays by African scholars namely, Okot p’Bitek, Rowland Abiodun and Kofi Agawu. The three essays highlight unique features of various art forms, practices and the associated discourses among the Acholi of northern Uganda, the Yoruba of Nigeria and the northern Ewe of Ghana. They also advocate the use of conceptual paradigms which are …
The Archiving of Siti Binti Saad and her Engagement with the Music Industry in Shaaban Robert’s Wasifu wa Siti Binti Saad
This essay discusses the representation of a Zanzibari legendary taarab female singer, Siti Binti Saad, in Shaaban Robert’s Wasifu wa Siti Binti Saad [Biography of Siti Binti Saad]. It examines the role Robert’s Wasifu plays in the archiving of Siti Binti Saad as a figure of East African identity, as a role model for subverting traditional gender norms and empowering women and as an exemplar for ethical life. It also discusses the representation …
Postcolonial archival fever and the musical archiving of African identity in selected paintings by Elias Jengo
This article examines the way music is figured in selected paintings by Tanzania painter Elias Jengo. It also identifies and discusses musical figures in these paintings that are used to archive African or Tanzanian identity. Through these paintings Jengo participates in constructing and enacting African/Tanzanian identity by invoking and depositing Tanzanian cultural heritage. The article argues that the archiving of Africanness in most postcolo…
Live from Dar es Salaam
Reviewed by: Live from Dar es Salaam: Popular Music and Tanzania’s Music Economy by Alex Perullo Imani Sanga Alex Perullo. Live from Dar es Salaam: Popular Music and Tanzania’s Music Economy. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2011. African Expressive Cultures Series. xxxii + 459 pp. Map. Photographs. Appendixes. Notes. References. Discography. Index. $80.00. Cloth. $27.95. Paper. A number of studies of contemporary music of …
The Limits and Ambivalences of Postcolonial Consciousness in Mbunga'sChurch Law and Bantu Music
A Tanzanian Roman Catholic priest, the late Stephen B. G. Mbunga (1927-1982), has played a significant role in the history of church music in Tanzania through his compositions, involvement in music performance as a choral conductor, and scholarly writing on various aspects of church music. He is best known by scholars of the music of Tanzania through his work on the localization of church music there. In his 1963 book entitledChurch Law and Bantu…
Music and the Regulatory Regimes of Gender and Sexuality in Tanzania
This article examines the involvement of music in shaping people's gendered behavior in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Using Judith Butler's theory of gender performativity and the associated concepts of gender normalization and regulatory regimes of gender, the article analyzes how selected songs play a role in regulating individuals' gendered behavior and disciplining individuals who disrupt societal gender norms. It argues that composers of these so…
Postcolonial Cosmopolitan Music in Dar es Salaam
This article concerns Dr. Remmy Ongala, a Congolese-Tanzanian musician, and the making of postcolonial cosmopolitan music in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It argues that Dr. Remmy's music is shaped by the postcolonial consciousness and conditions of contemporary Tanzania. It also shows Dr. Remmy's cosmopolitan citizenship in his songs that address political and social issues. Focusing on his involvement in worldbeat festivals, it argues that he, like …
The practice and politics of hybrid soundscapes inMuziki wa Injiliin Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
This article examines the practice and politics of music hybridization in Muziki wa Injili (Gospel Music) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It shows that music hybridization in Muziki wa Injili takes place when musical sounds from one music culture travel through a number of cultural frontiers including temporal, spatial and genre-defined frontiers and enter into another music culture. In this process the travelling sounds are transformed as they encou…
Teaching-learning processes in Muziki wa Injili in Dar es Salaam
This article is concerned with teaching-learning processes in Muziki wa Injili (Gospel Music) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It discusses two methods of teaching and learning that are commonly used in Muziki wa Injili, namely, imitation and peer-directed learning
Music and Nationalism in Tanzania
Research Article| January 01 2008 Music and Nationalism in Tanzania: Dynamics of National Space in Muziki wa Injili in Dar es Salaam Imani Sanga Imani Sanga Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2008) 52 (1): 52–84. https://doi.org/10.2307/20174566 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Imani Sanga; Music and Nationalism in Tanzania: Dynamics of Natio…
Kumpolo
This article deals with the aesthetics of the sounds of ring-necked doves and African ground hornbills among the Wawanji people of the Iringa region in the southern highlands of Tanzania. The Wawanji composed tunes by imitating the sounds of these birds. The essay argues that an aesthetic value was culturally attributed to the natural sounds of the birds, in so far as the lyrics set to these tunes and tales about the birds or their sounds concern…
Music and Nationalism in Tanzania
Research Article| January 01 2008 Music and Nationalism in Tanzania: Dynamics of National Space in Muziki wa Injili in Dar es Salaam Imani Sanga Imani Sanga Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2008) 52 (1): 52–84. https://doi.org/10.2307/20174566 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Imani Sanga; Music and Nationalism in Tanzania: Dynamics of Natio…
Postcolonial Cosmopolitan Music in Dar es Salaam
This article concerns Dr. Remmy Ongala, a Congolese-Tanzanian musician, and the making of postcolonial cosmopolitan music in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It argues that Dr. Remmy's music is shaped by the postcolonial consciousness and conditions of contemporary Tanzania. It also shows Dr. Remmy's cosmopolitan citizenship in his songs that address political and social issues. Focusing on his involvement in worldbeat festivals, it argues that he, like …
Postcolonial archival fever and the musical archiving of African identity in selected paintings by Elias Jengo
This article examines the way music is figured in selected paintings by Tanzania painter Elias Jengo. It also identifies and discusses musical figures in these paintings that are used to archive African or Tanzanian identity. Through these paintings Jengo participates in constructing and enacting African/Tanzanian identity by invoking and depositing Tanzanian cultural heritage. The article argues that the archiving of Africanness in most postcolo…
The Limits and Ambivalences of Postcolonial Consciousness in Mbunga'sChurch Law and Bantu Music
A Tanzanian Roman Catholic priest, the late Stephen B. G. Mbunga (1927-1982), has played a significant role in the history of church music in Tanzania through his compositions, involvement in music performance as a choral conductor, and scholarly writing on various aspects of church music. He is best known by scholars of the music of Tanzania through his work on the localization of church music there. In his 1963 book entitledChurch Law and Bantu…
Music and the Regulatory Regimes of Gender and Sexuality in Tanzania
This article examines the involvement of music in shaping people's gendered behavior in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Using Judith Butler's theory of gender performativity and the associated concepts of gender normalization and regulatory regimes of gender, the article analyzes how selected songs play a role in regulating individuals' gendered behavior and disciplining individuals who disrupt societal gender norms. It argues that composers of these so…
The practice and politics of hybrid soundscapes inMuziki wa Injiliin Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
This article examines the practice and politics of music hybridization in Muziki wa Injili (Gospel Music) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It shows that music hybridization in Muziki wa Injili takes place when musical sounds from one music culture travel through a number of cultural frontiers including temporal, spatial and genre-defined frontiers and enter into another music culture. In this process the travelling sounds are transformed as they encou…
Kumpolo
This article deals with the aesthetics of the sounds of ring-necked doves and African ground hornbills among the Wawanji people of the Iringa region in the southern highlands of Tanzania. The Wawanji composed tunes by imitating the sounds of these birds. The essay argues that an aesthetic value was culturally attributed to the natural sounds of the birds, in so far as the lyrics set to these tunes and tales about the birds or their sounds concern…
Musical figures of enslavement and resistance in Semzaba's Kiswahili playTendehogo
This article examines the use of musical figures in a Kiswahili play, Tendehogo. Written by an eminent Tanzanian playwright named Edwin Semzaba, the play recounts how slave trade was conducted by Arab traders in East Africa during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It tells about the experiences of African slave captives being driven by an Arab slave trader away from their homeland in the interior of Tanganyika to the coast. This forced est…
Sonic figures of heroism and the 1891 Hehe-German war in Mulokozi's novelNgome ya Mianzi
Shortly after the 1884–85 Berlin Conference, Germany invaded and fought a number of wars with Tanganyika’s local chiefdoms in order to subject these territories to its colonial rule. In 1891 the Hehe people, who dwelt in Iringa region in the southern part of today’s Tanzania, fought to resist the invading German troops and succeeded in killing the German commander, Emil von Zelewski. Using both fictional and historical persons, events and locatio…
Musical figures and the figuring of Tanzania's social life in the poems of Kulikoyela K. Kahigi
Mugyabuso M. Mulokozi and Kulikoyela K. Kahigi’s collection Malenga wa Bara (Poets from the Inland), first published in 1976 and reprinted in 1995, includes a number of poems by Kahigi in which music instruments, musical styles and music-making are used as poetic devices to represent various experiences drawn from the social world. This article discusses the ways in which musical figures (i.e. sonic or musical objects) are used in these poems and…
Musical figures and the archiving of African identity in selected poems in Tanzania
This article discusses two Kiswahili poems, namely “Wimbo Uliosahaulika” (A forgotten song) by Mugyabuso Mulokozi and “Ngoma ya Kimya” (A dance of silence) by Euphrase Kezilahabi, and examines how these poems use musical figures to archive African or Tanzanian identities. The article argues that although both poems perform a postcolonial act of subverting the hegemonic position of Western culture amongst Tanzanians, these two poems engage in this…
Antinomies of African aesthetics and the impulses of aesthetic relativism
This article examines the antinomies arising due to the deployment of the concept of African aesthetics in three essays by African scholars namely, Okot p’Bitek, Rowland Abiodun and Kofi Agawu. The three essays highlight unique features of various art forms, practices and the associated discourses among the Acholi of northern Uganda, the Yoruba of Nigeria and the northern Ewe of Ghana. They also advocate the use of conceptual paradigms which are …
Kumpolo
This article deals with the aesthetics of the sounds of ring-necked doves and African ground hornbills among the Wawanji people of the Iringa region in the southern highlands of Tanzania. The Wawanji composed tunes by imitating the sounds of these birds. The essay argues that an aesthetic value was culturally attributed to the natural sounds of the birds, in so far as the lyrics set to these tunes and tales about the birds or their sounds concern…
Music and Nationalism in Tanzania
Research Article| January 01 2008 Music and Nationalism in Tanzania: Dynamics of National Space in Muziki wa Injili in Dar es Salaam Imani Sanga Imani Sanga Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2008) 52 (1): 52–84. https://doi.org/10.2307/20174566 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Imani Sanga; Music and Nationalism in Tanzania: Dynamics of Natio…
Teaching-learning processes in Muziki wa Injili in Dar es Salaam
This article is concerned with teaching-learning processes in Muziki wa Injili (Gospel Music) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It discusses two methods of teaching and learning that are commonly used in Muziki wa Injili, namely, imitation and peer-directed learning
Postcolonial Cosmopolitan Music in Dar es Salaam
This article concerns Dr. Remmy Ongala, a Congolese-Tanzanian musician, and the making of postcolonial cosmopolitan music in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It argues that Dr. Remmy's music is shaped by the postcolonial consciousness and conditions of contemporary Tanzania. It also shows Dr. Remmy's cosmopolitan citizenship in his songs that address political and social issues. Focusing on his involvement in worldbeat festivals, it argues that he, like …
The practice and politics of hybrid soundscapes inMuziki wa Injiliin Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
This article examines the practice and politics of music hybridization in Muziki wa Injili (Gospel Music) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It shows that music hybridization in Muziki wa Injili takes place when musical sounds from one music culture travel through a number of cultural frontiers including temporal, spatial and genre-defined frontiers and enter into another music culture. In this process the travelling sounds are transformed as they encou…
Music and the Regulatory Regimes of Gender and Sexuality in Tanzania
This article examines the involvement of music in shaping people's gendered behavior in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Using Judith Butler's theory of gender performativity and the associated concepts of gender normalization and regulatory regimes of gender, the article analyzes how selected songs play a role in regulating individuals' gendered behavior and disciplining individuals who disrupt societal gender norms. It argues that composers of these so…
Live from Dar es Salaam
Reviewed by: Live from Dar es Salaam: Popular Music and Tanzania’s Music Economy by Alex Perullo Imani Sanga Alex Perullo. Live from Dar es Salaam: Popular Music and Tanzania’s Music Economy. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2011. African Expressive Cultures Series. xxxii + 459 pp. Map. Photographs. Appendixes. Notes. References. Discography. Index. $80.00. Cloth. $27.95. Paper. A number of studies of contemporary music of …
The Limits and Ambivalences of Postcolonial Consciousness in Mbunga'sChurch Law and Bantu Music
A Tanzanian Roman Catholic priest, the late Stephen B. G. Mbunga (1927-1982), has played a significant role in the history of church music in Tanzania through his compositions, involvement in music performance as a choral conductor, and scholarly writing on various aspects of church music. He is best known by scholars of the music of Tanzania through his work on the localization of church music there. In his 1963 book entitledChurch Law and Bantu…
Postcolonial archival fever and the musical archiving of African identity in selected paintings by Elias Jengo
This article examines the way music is figured in selected paintings by Tanzania painter Elias Jengo. It also identifies and discusses musical figures in these paintings that are used to archive African or Tanzanian identity. Through these paintings Jengo participates in constructing and enacting African/Tanzanian identity by invoking and depositing Tanzanian cultural heritage. The article argues that the archiving of Africanness in most postcolo…
The Archiving of Siti Binti Saad and her Engagement with the Music Industry in Shaaban Robert’s Wasifu wa Siti Binti Saad
This essay discusses the representation of a Zanzibari legendary taarab female singer, Siti Binti Saad, in Shaaban Robert’s Wasifu wa Siti Binti Saad [Biography of Siti Binti Saad]. It examines the role Robert’s Wasifu plays in the archiving of Siti Binti Saad as a figure of East African identity, as a role model for subverting traditional gender norms and empowering women and as an exemplar for ethical life. It also discusses the representation …
Musical figures and the archiving of African identity in selected poems in Tanzania
This article discusses two Kiswahili poems, namely “Wimbo Uliosahaulika” (A forgotten song) by Mugyabuso Mulokozi and “Ngoma ya Kimya” (A dance of silence) by Euphrase Kezilahabi, and examines how these poems use musical figures to archive African or Tanzanian identities. The article argues that although both poems perform a postcolonial act of subverting the hegemonic position of Western culture amongst Tanzanians, these two poems engage in this…
Antinomies of African aesthetics and the impulses of aesthetic relativism
This article examines the antinomies arising due to the deployment of the concept of African aesthetics in three essays by African scholars namely, Okot p’Bitek, Rowland Abiodun and Kofi Agawu. The three essays highlight unique features of various art forms, practices and the associated discourses among the Acholi of northern Uganda, the Yoruba of Nigeria and the northern Ewe of Ghana. They also advocate the use of conceptual paradigms which are …
The Antinomies of Transgressive Gender Acts in Professor Jay’s Rap Music Video “Zali la Mentali” in Tanzania
This article examines the transgressive gender acts in a rap music video by Tanzanian musician Professor Jay entitled “Zali la Mentali”. It argues that, on the one hand, this music video subverts established gender norms and the dominance of the male figure by representing a female character who displays more power and agency in comparison with her male counterpart while, on the other hand, it also participates in maintaining and propagating male…
Musical figures and the figuring of Tanzania's social life in the poems of Kulikoyela K. Kahigi
Mugyabuso M. Mulokozi and Kulikoyela K. Kahigi’s collection Malenga wa Bara (Poets from the Inland), first published in 1976 and reprinted in 1995, includes a number of poems by Kahigi in which music instruments, musical styles and music-making are used as poetic devices to represent various experiences drawn from the social world. This article discusses the ways in which musical figures (i.e. sonic or musical objects) are used in these poems and…
Sonic figures of heroism and the 1891 Hehe-German war in Mulokozi's novelNgome ya Mianzi
Shortly after the 1884–85 Berlin Conference, Germany invaded and fought a number of wars with Tanganyika’s local chiefdoms in order to subject these territories to its colonial rule. In 1891 the Hehe people, who dwelt in Iringa region in the southern part of today’s Tanzania, fought to resist the invading German troops and succeeded in killing the German commander, Emil von Zelewski. Using both fictional and historical persons, events and locatio…
Musical Figuring of Dar es Salaam Urban Marginality in Mbogo’s Swahili Novel Watoto wa Maman’tilie
Watoto wa Maman’tilie (lit. Children of a Woman Street Food Vendor), a Swahili novel by a Tanzanian writer Emmanuel Mbogo, narrates the horrendous experiences of children who are forced to drop out of school and become street children. The novel also narrates their survival strategies in the periphery of the city. This article discusses how the novel uses musical figures including songs by renowned African popular musicians, Swahili local dances …
Musical figures of enslavement and resistance in Semzaba's Kiswahili playTendehogo
This article examines the use of musical figures in a Kiswahili play, Tendehogo. Written by an eminent Tanzanian playwright named Edwin Semzaba, the play recounts how slave trade was conducted by Arab traders in East Africa during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It tells about the experiences of African slave captives being driven by an Arab slave trader away from their homeland in the interior of Tanganyika to the coast. This forced est…
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