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Author White, Bob W., 1965-

Title Rumba rules : the politics of dance music in Mobutu's Zaire / Bob W. White
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 300 pages) : illustrations
Series Duke backfile
Contents Popular culture's politics -- The Zairian sound -- Made in Zaire -- Live time -- Musicians and mobility -- Live texts -- The political life of dance bands -- In the skin of a chief
Summary Examines the relationship between popular music and politics in Zaire during the presidency of Mobutu Sese Seko through the author's participation as musician and ethnographer in a successful Kinshasa band of the mid-1990s
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-285), discography (p. 287-288) , and index
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Subject Mobutu Sese Seko, 1930-1997.
SUBJECT Mobutu Sese Seko, 1930-1997. fast (OCoLC)fst00042544
Subject Popular music -- Political aspects -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
Popular music -- Social aspects -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
Music and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
HISTORY -- Africa -- Central.
Music and state.
Popular music -- Political aspects.
Popular music -- Social aspects.
Popmusik
Gesellschaft
Politik
Music.
Music, Dance, Drama & Film.
Music Philosophy.
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Kongo <Demokratische Republik>
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822389262
0822389266