Popular music, identity and politics in a colonial urban space

The case of Mwanza, Tanzania (1945-1961)

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20044091
AutoresMaria Suriano (0000-0002-4838-9815, autor correspondente)
Ano2009
Páginas261-289
Data de publicação2009-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoCHAPTER
PeriódicoAfrican cities (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/ej.9789004162648.i-308.78
OpenAlexW324037243
ISBN9789004162648
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2

This chapter aims to contribute to the recent historiography which attempts to understand the complex relationship between leisure, popular culture, identity and politics in Mwanza, Tanzania in colonial urban Africa. The focus is on Mwanza, on the shore of Lake Victoria (North-Western Tanzania), in the space of a relatively short period of time, that is, from the end of the Second World War up to independence in 1961. This contribution particularly concentrates on the 1950s, when the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU, formed in 1954 in succession of the Tanganyika African Association, TAA) openly demanded independence. In those years, cultural institutions and leisure activitiessuch as music performances and football matchesbecame highly politicised. Keywords: colonial urban Africa; cultural identity; Mwanza; politics; popular music; Tanganyika African Association (TAA); Tanganyika African National Union (TANU); Tanzania

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Ethnology · Geography · Historiography · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Tanzania · African history and culture studies · Gender Studies · History · Law