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Africa in stereo : modernism, music, and pan-African solidarity / Tsitsi Ella Jaji.

By: Jaji, Tsitsi [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014Description: 272 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780199936373 (hbk.) :; 9780199936397 (pbk.) :Subject(s): African literature -- History and criticism | Modernism (Literature) -- Africa | Music in literature | Musical films -- History and criticism | Comparative literature -- African and American | Comparative literature -- American and African | Music -- Social aspects -- Africa | Literature | LiteratureDDC classification: 809.8'96 Summary: 'Africa In Stereo' examines the role that African American music has played in the pan-Africanist imagination since the end of the 19th century. Throughout, Jaji marshals a wide array of critical, archival, literary, visual, and sonic sources to craft an argument centered on the stereophonic echoes between three sites on the African continent emblematic of pan-Africanism (Ghana, Senegal, and South Africa) and black musical cultures in the US (as well as few other placeson the diasporic landscape).
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

'Africa In Stereo' examines the role that African American music has played in the pan-Africanist imagination since the end of the 19th century. Throughout, Jaji marshals a wide array of critical, archival, literary, visual, and sonic sources to craft an argument centered on the stereophonic echoes between three sites on the African continent emblematic of pan-Africanism (Ghana, Senegal, and South Africa) and black musical cultures in the US (as well as few other placeson the diasporic landscape).

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