Contents

• Introduction Tyler Fleming and Toyin Falola Part One: Contemporary Music and Its Wider Social Impacts
• 1. Inventing East African Hip-Hop: Youth and Musical Convergence in East Africa George Gathigi
• 2. Rap, Cartoon and Rap Cartoon: Representations of the Maasai in Contemporary Tanzanian Popular Culture Katrina Daly Thompson
• 3. An Emulating Beat: The Takiboronse Effect in Burkina Faso Popular Culture Batamaka Somé
• 4. Infectious Beats: Urban Grooves Music’s Collusion with the Zimbabwean State Farai Wonderful Bere Part Two: Transnational Projections and Performances
• 5. Popular Culture in Senegal: Blending the Secular and the Religious Fallou Ngom
• 6. Blackface in America and Africa: Popular Arts and Diaspora Consciousness in Cape Town and the Gold Coast Benjamin Brühwiler
• 7. The South Africanization of Tanzanian Christian Popular Music Mathayo B. Ndomondo Part Three: Historical Reflections on Music
• 8. Representations of Sophiatown in Kwaito Music: Mafikizolo and Musical Memory Xavier Livermon
• 9. Stars of Song and Cinema: The Impact of Film on 1950s Johannesburg’s Black Music Scene Tyler Fleming
• 10. Performing and Contesting Modernity: Zimbabwean Urban Musicians and Cultural Self-Constructions, 1930s-70s Moses Chikowero
• 11. Revisiting Country Music in Zimbabwe to Reflect Upon the History of the Study of African Popular Culture Jonathan Zilberg Part Four: Cultural and Political Meanings in African Music
• 12. Things Fall Apart: What Troubles Hath Hip Hop In Kenya? George Nyabuga
• 13. Speaking the Unspeakable Through Hiplife: A Discursive Construction of Ghanaian Political Discourse Samuel Gyasi Obeng
• 14. Popular Music in Cape Verde: Resistance or Conciliation? Juliana Braz Dias