Sorrow Songs and Mbira Music: Du Bois, Mapfumo, and the Power of Music
This article examines how music functions as social commentary on a group’s lived experience and as a tool to inform identity. Music is a data source that articulates historical and cultural contexts and can thus be utilized as social commentary to socially construct the identity of people of Africa...
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| Language: | English |
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North Carolina Sociological Association
2012-10-01
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| Series: | Sociation Today |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ncsociology.org/sociationtoday/v102/song.htm |