In the contemporary world, discourse on global cultural flows and related outcomes has moved to the center stage in scholarly research and activist realms. In this discourse, especially that related to fundamental world views on globalization and to the links between different communities of the world, the space that popular music occupies is very central. This is because popular music has always subverted the notion of national boundaries, transcended and transformed them into new conduits and spaces that allow for the emergence of new identities. While there is nothing particularly new about the foregoing global trend, its significance in cultural and political debates, at least in Africa and Kenya in particular, has scarcely been appreci...
It has been argued that music plays a pivotal role in shaping societies and cultures across the worl...
Abstract: The Hip Hop Parliament is a youth-initiative comprised of underground hip hop MCs and arti...
Popular art is an effective medium for expressing individual and collective representations and aspi...
The arts in any form are signifying codes and means of representing splintering identity, fragmentat...
While probing the politics of everyday in Gikuyu popular music, the main thrust of this book is to u...
Perhaps for reasons related to intellectual elitism or simply because of the lack of an effective me...
This dissertation is a critical, theoretical study focussing is on the contribution that popular mus...
Music and politics in Kenya have long been intertwined. Song exalted the spirit of political manipul...
Songs and Politics in Eastern Africa brings together important essays on songs and politics in the r...
One of the factors affecting the social, political and economic situation in Africa today is the you...
The fraught relationship between popular music and the various kinds of power in Africa has stimulat...
The Hip Hop Parliament is a youth-initiative comprised of underground hip hop MCs and artists that b...
The various styles of Kenyan pop music differ of course, but there is apart from the guitar one very...
As an adhesive that binds a society, music is pervasive in communicating issues affecting the societ...
The contagious sound of Congo-Zaire's distinctive popular dance music has made it a kind of 'musica ...
It has been argued that music plays a pivotal role in shaping societies and cultures across the worl...
Abstract: The Hip Hop Parliament is a youth-initiative comprised of underground hip hop MCs and arti...
Popular art is an effective medium for expressing individual and collective representations and aspi...
The arts in any form are signifying codes and means of representing splintering identity, fragmentat...
While probing the politics of everyday in Gikuyu popular music, the main thrust of this book is to u...
Perhaps for reasons related to intellectual elitism or simply because of the lack of an effective me...
This dissertation is a critical, theoretical study focussing is on the contribution that popular mus...
Music and politics in Kenya have long been intertwined. Song exalted the spirit of political manipul...
Songs and Politics in Eastern Africa brings together important essays on songs and politics in the r...
One of the factors affecting the social, political and economic situation in Africa today is the you...
The fraught relationship between popular music and the various kinds of power in Africa has stimulat...
The Hip Hop Parliament is a youth-initiative comprised of underground hip hop MCs and artists that b...
The various styles of Kenyan pop music differ of course, but there is apart from the guitar one very...
As an adhesive that binds a society, music is pervasive in communicating issues affecting the societ...
The contagious sound of Congo-Zaire's distinctive popular dance music has made it a kind of 'musica ...
It has been argued that music plays a pivotal role in shaping societies and cultures across the worl...
Abstract: The Hip Hop Parliament is a youth-initiative comprised of underground hip hop MCs and arti...
Popular art is an effective medium for expressing individual and collective representations and aspi...