Popular music, popular politics: Unbwogable and the idioms of freedom in Kenyan popular music

African Affairs

Volumn 104, Issue 415, 2005, Pages 225-249

  Nyairo, Joyce ^a   Ogude, James ^b  

^a MOI UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ART; CULTURAL IDENTITY; ELECTION; MUSIC; POLITICAL DISCOURSE;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; KENYA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

ARENA;

EID: 17844401742     PISSN: 00019909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adi012     Document Type: Article

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