Review of Kelly Askew. 2002. Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press
If the last few decades of postcolonial critique have accomplished anything, it has been to cast a bright light on certain elephants that have too long resided, invisible, in cultural anthropology's living room. The largest of these has been, of course, the nation-state. It took years of searc...
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Columbia University Libraries
2003-03-01
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Series: | Current Musicology |
Online Access: | https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/currentmusicology/article/view/4947 |