“Indépendance Cha Cha”: African Pop Music since the Independence Era “Indépendance Cha Cha”: Afrikanische Popmusik seit der Unabhängigkeit

Investigating why Latin American music came to be the soundtrack of the independence era, this contribution offers an overview of musical developments and cultural politics in certain sub-Saharan African countries since the 1960s. Focusing first on how the governments of newly independent African st...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hauke Dorsch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2010-01-01
Series:Africa Spectrum
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Online Access:http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/afsp/article/view/380