Journey of song public life and morality in Cameroon /
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| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
c2006.
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| Series: | African expressive cultures.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Maïtené'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.