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Journey of song : public life and morality in Cameroon / Clare A. Ignatowski.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: African expressive culturesPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.Description: xi, 223 p., [20] p. of plates ; ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0253346460 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0253217946 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.896/361 22
LOC classification:
  • HN819 .A81385
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Maïtené's modern life : song as negotiation of public morality -- "Better than family, better than girls" : the Tupuri Gurna Society -- Defying the modern : play of identities in Gurna dance exhortation ([b,hooked][o]'ge f[o]g[e]) -- "Telephone of the dance" : circulation of Gurna song discourse -- "Rise up, gather like storm clouds" : poetics of Gurna song (si[ng] gurna) -- "I become your boy" : power, legitimacy and magic in song composition -- Staging conflict through insult : competing systems of justice -- Multipartyism and nostalgia for the unified past : discourses of democracy in Gurna politics -- Conclusion.
Item type: Book
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-220) and index.

Introduction -- Maïtené's modern life : song as negotiation of public morality -- "Better than family, better than girls" : the Tupuri Gurna Society -- Defying the modern : play of identities in Gurna dance exhortation ([b,hooked][o]'ge f[o]g[e]) -- "Telephone of the dance" : circulation of Gurna song discourse -- "Rise up, gather like storm clouds" : poetics of Gurna song (si[ng] gurna) -- "I become your boy" : power, legitimacy and magic in song composition -- Staging conflict through insult : competing systems of justice -- Multipartyism and nostalgia for the unified past : discourses of democracy in Gurna politics -- Conclusion.

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