Journey of song [electronic resource] : public life and morality in Cameroon / Clare A. Ignatowski.
By: Ignatowski, Clare A.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
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BookSeries: African expressive cultures: Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006Description: xi, 223 p., [20] p. of plates : ill., maps.Subject(s): Tupuri (African people) -- Cameroon -- Social life and customs | Cameroon -- Social conditions -- 1960-Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 305.896/361 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-220) and index.
Introduction -- Ma�iten�e'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 ([b,hooked][o]'ge f[o]g[e]) -- "Telephone of the dance" : circulation of Gurna song discourse -- "Rise up, gather like storm clouds" : poetics of Gurna song (si[ng] 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.
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