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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Intro; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter I; Chapter II; Chapter III; Chapter IV; Chapter V; Chapter VI; Chapter VII; References |
| Summary |
Okatch Biggy was the single most dominant benga artiste of the 1990s. Over that decade, benga was the most important genre of popular music in Kenya. What is it about the music of Okatch Biggy that made it attractive to his target audience, the Luo of the 1990s? Is there something about the Luo of the 1990s that predisposed them to this music? In the course of answering these--and related--questions, this volume analyzes Okatch Biggy's songs as works of art, that is, by identifying the aesthetic and rhetorical conventions that are deployed in the songs, and explores the central messages that t |
| Notes |
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 27, 2019) |
| Subject |
Popular music -- Kenya -- 1991-2000 -- History and criticism
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
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Popular music
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Kenya
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781527528253 |
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1527528251 |
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