Performing religion : : negotiating past and present in Kwaya music of Tanzania / / Gregory F. Barz.
Performing Religion considers issues related to Tanzanian kwayas [KiSwahili, “choirs”], musical communities most often affiliated with Christian churches, and the music they make, known as nyimbo za kwaya [choir songs] or muziki wa kwaya [choir music]. The analytical approach adopted in this text fo...
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 225 pages) :; illustrations. |
Notes: | Accompanying compact disc features Kwaya ya Upendo, Azania Front Lutheran Cathedral, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, directed by Gideon Mdegella as well as other choirs from Dar es Salaam. The CD provides illustrations that highlight many of the concepts and issues raised in the text and document the art of kwaya traditions. |
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Barz, Gregory F., 1960- author. Performing religion : negotiating past and present in Kwaya music of Tanzania / Gregory F. Barz. Amsterdam, Netherlands ; New York, New York : Rodopi, [2003] 2003 1 online resource (xvi, 225 pages) : illustrations. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Church and theology in context ; no. 42 Performing Religion considers issues related to Tanzanian kwayas [KiSwahili, “choirs”], musical communities most often affiliated with Christian churches, and the music they make, known as nyimbo za kwaya [choir songs] or muziki wa kwaya [choir music]. The analytical approach adopted in this text focusing on the communities of kwaya is one frequently used in the fields of ethnomusicology, religious studies, culture studies, and philosophy for understanding diversified social processes-consciousness. By invoking consciousness an attempt is made to represent the ways seemingly disparate traditions coexist, thrive, and continue within contemporary kwaya performance. An East African kwaya is a community that gathers several times each week to define its spirituality musically. Members of kwayas come together to sing, to pray, to support individual members in times of need, and to both learn and pass along new and inherited faith traditions. Kwayas negotiate between multiple musical traditions or just as often they reject an inherited musical system while others may continue to engage musical repertoires from both Europe and Africa. Contemporary kwayas comfortably coexist in the urban musical soundscape of coastal Dar es Salaam along with jazz dance bands, taarab ensembles, ngoma performance groups, Hindi film music, rap, reggae, and the constant influx of recorded American and European popular musics. This ethnography calls into question terms frequently used to draw tight boundaries around the study of the arts in African expressive religious cultures. Such divisions of the arts present well-defended boundaries and borders that are not sufficient for understanding the change, adaptation, preservation, and integration that occur within a Tanzanian kwaya . Boundaries break down within the everyday performance of East African kwayas , such as Kwaya ya Upendo [“The Love Choir”] in Dar es Salaam, as repertoires, traditions, histories, and cultures interact within a performance of social identity. Accompanying compact disc features Kwaya ya Upendo, Azania Front Lutheran Cathedral, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, directed by Gideon Mdegella as well as other choirs from Dar es Salaam. The CD provides illustrations that highlight many of the concepts and issues raised in the text and document the art of kwaya traditions. Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-205) and index. Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Theories, Frames, Methods, and Lenses An Ethnographic Approach to the Study of Tanzanian Kwaya Music -- East African Kwaya Music and the Colonial and Missionary Encounter -- Conflicting, Complementary, and Divergent Aesthetics of Kwaya Music -- “We Are From Different Ethnic Groups, But We Live Here As One Family” The Musical Performance of Community in an East African Kwaya -- Kwaya Music and the Performance of Spirituality and Disaffection Music and Worship in a Tanzanian Kwaya Community -- Kwayas, Kandas, Kiosks Tanzanian Popular Kwaya Music -- Social Organization and the Creation of Sacred Space within Kwaya ya Upendo -- “I Am Able To See Very Far But I Am Unable To Reach There” Ndugu Gideon Mdegella’s Nyimbo za Kwaya -- Conclusion -- References Cited -- Glossary -- Appendices -- Index. Description based on print version record. Music History and criticism Tanzania. Ethnomusicology Tanzania. Choral music Tanzania. 90-420-0827-X ebrary Church and Theology in Context 42. |
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Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Theories, Frames, Methods, and Lenses An Ethnographic Approach to the Study of Tanzanian Kwaya Music -- East African Kwaya Music and the Colonial and Missionary Encounter -- Conflicting, Complementary, and Divergent Aesthetics of Kwaya Music -- “We Are From Different Ethnic Groups, But We Live Here As One Family” The Musical Performance of Community in an East African Kwaya -- Kwaya Music and the Performance of Spirituality and Disaffection Music and Worship in a Tanzanian Kwaya Community -- Kwayas, Kandas, Kiosks Tanzanian Popular Kwaya Music -- Social Organization and the Creation of Sacred Space within Kwaya ya Upendo -- “I Am Able To See Very Far But I Am Unable To Reach There” Ndugu Gideon Mdegella’s Nyimbo za Kwaya -- Conclusion -- References Cited -- Glossary -- Appendices -- Index. |
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