Indigenous African Popular Music, Volume 1

Chapter 1: Introduction: Indigenous African Popular Music. - SECTION A: THE NATURE, PHILOSOPHIES AND GENRES OF INDIGENOUS AFRICAN POPULAR MUSIC. - Chapter 2: Indigenous and modern Zimbabwean music: Reflections from Thomas Mapfumo s
Chimurenga
music genre. - Chapter 3: Rhythmic signifying in popular Venda music. - Chapter 4: Baansi ni Yila: A critical history of the music industry in Northern Ghana. - Chapter 5: Indigenous and Indigenised Yoruba Popular Music. - Chapter 6: Social Cognition and Advertisement in Yusuf Olatunji s Music. - Chapter 7: Exploring the value systems embedded in indigenous Yorùbá music genres and Yorùbá nursery rhymes. - Chapter 8: Cultural Frames: Socio-Cultural Metaphors in Owerri-Igbo Bongo Music. - Chapter 9: Thematic Deconstructions of Urhobo/Isoko Musicology and Brand Identity Negotiation, Normalization & Contradictions: Discourse Narrative. - Chapter 10: Dung Chollom and Berom Ethnic Popular Music. - SECTION B: INDIGENOUS AFRICAN POPULAR MUSIC ARTISTES AS PROPHETS AND PHILOSOPHERS. - Chapter 11: Corpus of Prophecy, Philosophy and Crusading in Ayinla Omowura s Music. - Chapter 12: Forewarned is forearmed: Exploring the apocalyptic voice of popular music in the post-colonial Zimbabwe. - Chapter 13: Reeling Nostalgia: `Aremote and the enduring Sakara music in Nigeria. - Chapter 14: Celebration as Choice in Nigerian Indigenous and Modern Music: A Critical Analysis of Osondi Owendi by Osita Osadebe and Chinedu Okoli (Flavour). - Chapter 15: Yoruba Socio-Cultural Norms and Values in Selected Songs of Bukola Elemide (Asa). - Chapter 16: Rethinking Values and Principles: An Examination of Osita Osadebe Songs in Igbo Cultural Value Preservation. - SECTION C: INDIGENOUS AFRICAN POPULAR MUSIC AND THE WORLD. - Chapter 17: Valodia: A Transatlantic Praise Song. - Chapter 18: The adaptation of Zimbabwean
mbira dzavadzimu
music, from traditional to modern popular band format; the case of Thomas Mapfumo. - Chapter 19: Macheso s
Sungura
and
Socialidentity
narratives in
Postcolonial
Zimbabwe. - Chapter 20: One Beat, One Pound - Kasumu Isola Sanni: The Sákárà Master Drummer. - Chapter 21: When Culture and Tradition Aren t Archaic: The Song Semantics of Zimbabwean Mbira s International Appeal.