Mapping ‘performance and social meaning in Africa’

Gunner, Liz

doi:10.1080/13696815.2015.1075785

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“…In Africa, scholarly and media accounts have shown how popular culture can reveal the dynamics of the relationship between citizens and state institutions (Barber 1997;Dolby 2006;Coplan 2008;Turino 2008;Gilman 2011;Gunner, Ligaga and Moyo 2012;Gunner 2015). Popular music has received special attention as an entry point to understanding social and political action.…”

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Alternative Expressions of Citizen Voices: The Protest Song and Popular Engagements with the Mozambican State

Manhiça¹,

Shankland²,

Taela³

et al. 2020

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This study examines Mozambican popular music to investigate three questions: Are notions of empowerment and accountability present in popular music in Mozambique? If so, what can these existing notions of empowerment and accountability reveal about relations between citizens and state institutions in general and about citizen-led social and political action in particular? In what ways is popular music used to support citizen mobilisation in Mozambique? The discussion is based on an analysis of 46 protest songs, interviews with musicians, music producers and event promoters as well as field interviews and observations among audiences at selected popular music concerts and public workshops in Maputo city. Secondary data were drawn from radio broadcasts, digital media, and social networks. The songs analysed were widely played in the past two decades (1998–2018), a period in which three different presidents led the country. Our focus is on the protest song, conceived as those musical products that are concerned with public affairs, particularly public policy and how it affects citizens’ social, political and economic life, and the relationship between citizens and the state.

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confidence: 99%