Journey of Song Public Life and Morality in Cameroon

Name: Journey of Song Public Life and Morality in Cameroon
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ISBN: 9780253346469

ISBN-10: 0253346460

ISBN-13: 9780253346469

Edition: 2006

Authors: Clare A. Ignatowski

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Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 2/28/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

Clare A. Ignatowski is a visiting scholar at the African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania.




Introduction



Maitene'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 [actual symbol not reproducible]



"Telephone of the dance" : circulation of Gurna song discourse



"Rise up, gather like storm clouds" : poetics of Gurna song (Sin 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