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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| Superior document: | Church and theology in context ; no. 42 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, New York, New York : : Rodopi,, [2003] 2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Church and Theology in Context
42. |
| 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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Table of Contents:
- 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.