Hindi Film Songs in the Home

Gendered Experiences of Singing Popular Songs in Tamale, Northern Ghana

Bibliographic Data

ID2650299
AuthorsKatie Young (0000-0003-3718-4758, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume66
Issue2
Pages264-289
Publication date2022-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnomusicology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0014-1836 • E-ISSN: 2156-7417
PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5406/21567417.66.2.05
OpenAlexW4280553005
LanguageEN
References cited17

Beginning in the 1950s, Dagbamba and Hausa women in Tamale listened to Hindi film songs in their homes, via gramophone records and through state-run women's radio programs. Hindi film songs were soon integrated into existing domestic singing practices, including songs meant for domestic labor (tuma-yila) and childcare (biyola-yila). Through an analysis of oral history interviews as well as recorded performances of Hindi film songs sung by women, men, and youth in Tamale, I show how everyday performances of Hindi film songs reveal gendered and intergenerational experiences of domestic space, labor, and social life in Tamale

Acoustics · Everyday life · Geography · Hausa · Hindi · Indonesian · Linguistics · Political science · Singing · Sociology · Turkish · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender Studies · History · Music History and Culture · South Asian Cinema and Culture

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