2 mars 2023
IFRA Nairobi, « 'The Rise of Boys Bands': The Regimentation and Commodification of Popular Music in the Kamba Community, 1960-2022 », IFRA-Nairobi, ID : 10670/1.w2x19z
The extant literature on African songs and dances lends credence to music historicism which insists that popular African music ought to be understood in the context of its production and reception. However, this literature is overly silent on the commodification of popular African music in the post-colonial era. This is despite the fact that entrepreneurial motives of the performance of popular African music supplanted primordial social-cultural functions of songs and dances in Africa in the ...