Popular music and the negotiation of contemporary Kenyan identity: The example of Nairobi City Ensemble

Social Identities

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 383-400

  Nyairo, Joyce ^a   Ogude, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL IDENTITY; IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; MUSIC;

KENYA;

EID: 0141885171     PISSN: 13504630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1350463032000129993     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Achebe, C. (1988) The Trouble With Nigeria, London: Heinemann.
2. Agawu, K. (2001) 'Introduction', Research in African Literatures, 32 (2): 3-7.
3. Amuka, P.S.O. (2000) 'The Play of Deconstruction in the Speech of Africa: The Role of Pakruok and Ngero in Telling Culture in Dholuo', in I. Karp and D.A. Masolo (eds), African Philosophy as Cultural Inquiry, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
4. Appiah, K.A. (1992) In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
5. Ashcroft, B., G. Griffiths and H. Tiffin (1989) The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures. London: Routledge.
6. Atieno Odhiambo, E.S. and D. Cohen (1992) Burying SM: The Politics of Knowledge and the Sociology of Power, London: James Currey.
7. Atieno Odhiambo, E.S. and D. Cohen (2002) 'Kula Raha: Gendered Discourses and the Contours of Leisure in Nairobi, 1946-1963', in A. Burton (ed.), The Urban Experience in Eastern Africa, Nairobi: British Institute.
8. Barber, K. (ed.) (1997) Readings in African Popular Culture, Oxford: James Currey.
9. Bhabha, H. (1983) 'The Other Question', in P. Mongia (ed.), Contemporary Postcolonial Theory, New York: Oxford University Press.
10. Bhabha, H. (1994) 'Remembering Fanon: Self, Psyche and the Colonial Condition,' in P. Williams and L. Chrisman (eds), Colonial Discourses and Postcolonial Theory, New York: Columbia University Press.
11. Brubaker, R. and F. Cooper (2000) 'Beyond 'Identity", Theory and Society, 29: 1-47.
12. Gikandi, S. (1992) 'Ngugi's Conversion: Writing and the Politics of Language', Research in African Literature, 23 (1): 131-44.
13. Hall, S. (1994) 'Cultural Identity and Diaspora', in P. Williams and L. Chrisman (eds), Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory, New York: Columbia University Press.
14. Hall, S. (1995) 'Negotiating Caribbean Identities', New Left Review, 209: 3-14.
15. Hanks, W.F. (1989) 'Text and Textuality', Annual Review of Anthropology, 18: 95-127.
16. Irele, A. (2001) 'The Landscape of African Music', Research in African Literatures, 32 (2): 1-2.
17. McQuail, M. (1972) The Sociology of Mass Communication, Harmondsworth: Penguin.
18. Miller, C. (1990) Theories of Africans: Francophone Literature and Anthropology in Africa, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
19. Ngugi Wa Thiong'o (1986) Decolonizing the Mind: the Politics of Language in African Literature, London: James Currey.
20. Ocholla-Ayayo, A.B.C. (1976) Tradition, Ideology and Ethics among the Southern Luo, Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies.
21. Olaniyan, T. (2001) 'The Cosmopolitan Nativist: Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and the Antinomies of Postcolonial Modernity', Research in African Literatures, 32 (2): 76-89.
22. Ogg, A. and D. Upshal (1999) The Hip Hop Years: A History of Rap, London: Macmillan.
23. P'Bitek, O. (1966) Song of Lawino, London: Heinemann.
24. Presha, P. (2002) Interview with Njoki Karuoya, Sunday Nation, 27 January: 12.
25. Stapleton C. and C. May (1989) African Rock: The Pop Music of a Continent, London: Paladin.
26. Walder, D. (2000) 'The Necessity of Error: Memory and Representation in the New Literatures', in S. Nasta (ed.), Reading the New Literatures in a Postcolonial Era, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
27. Waterman, C. (1997) "Our Tradition is a Very Modern Tradition': Popular Music and the Construction of Pan-Yoruba Identity', in K. Barber (ed.), Readings in African Popular Culture, London: International African Institute/James Currey.