Eastern African Popular Songs: Verbal Art in States of Transformation

Author: Aaron Louis Rosenberg

publisher name: Africa World Press

ISBN: 9781592218561

£24.99

book description

The focus of this study is a detailed analysis of language, form, and theme as they apply to a wide spectrum of verbal art in the region. Literary and musical works from throughout Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi, and the Comoros Islands are examined. A consideration of these broad regions is necessary in order to determine and describe the salient ways in which forms of creative expression are deployed as devices which reflect and radically transform prevailing ways and means of identity formation in communities.