Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Stasik, Michael

Title Disconnections : popular music audiences in Freetown, Sierra Leone / Michael Stasik
Published Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG ; Leiden : African Studies Centre, 2012

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xv, 237 pages) : color illustrations, color maps
Contents The music/society nexus : some introductory reflections and observations -- From class to mass : Freetown's music and society in historical perspective -- Disconnections : social dynamics in the spaces of music -- Topia of utopias
Summary This book offers an account of the complex and often contradictory relations between music and society in Freetown's past and present. Blending anthropological thought with ethnographic and historical research, it explores the conjunctures of music practices and social affiliations and the diverse patterns of social dis/connections that music helps to shape, to (re)create, and to defy in Sierra Leone's capital. The first half of the book traces back the changing social relationships and the concurrent changes in the city's music life from the first days of the colony in the late 18th century up to the turbulent and thriving music scenes in the first decade of the 21st century. Grounded in this comprehensive historiography of Freetown's socio-musical palimpsest, the second half of the book puts forth a detailed ethnography of social dynamics in the realms of music, calibrating contemporary Freetown's social polyphony with its musical counterpart
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-237)
Notes Print version record
Subject Popular music -- Sierra Leone -- Freetown
Popular music fans -- Sierra Leone -- Freetown
Discotheques -- Sierra Leone -- Freetown
Music -- Social aspects.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- International.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- New Age.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Pop Vocal.
Discotheques
Music -- Social aspects
Popular music
Popular music fans
Sierra Leone -- Freetown
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789956728572
9956728578
9956728330
9789956728336