FRINK Linked Data Fragments server

Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W286997981> ?p ?o ?g. }

• W286997981 startingPage "273" @default.
• W286997981 abstract "White, Bob W. Rumba rules: The politics dance music in Mobutu's Zaire. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. 300 pp. Rumba rules: The politics dance music in Mobutu's Zaire, is a smoothly written book that describes culture, specifically dance music, as a political barometer. In eight, absorbing, virtually jargon free chapters White (2008), reflects on the role that dance music holds within ethnic communities, a role that reflects past and present history, carrying political messages fluctuating between the conservative and militant. Defined as culturally patterned beliefs and practices that inform the way that power is sought after, yielded, and understood (p. 15), culture has the ability carry convincing or dissuasive political messages the listener. When we listen the lyrics music, what message do they carry? Are the words supportive a government that is corrupt, embezzling and oppressing the nation, and following in the footsteps a colonial past that it swore replace, or do the words imply a resistance a government that has betrayed and abandoned its people? Is dance music acting as an accomplice a corrupt government based on a relationship reciprocity between political leader and band leader? White considers the question, did things get so out control in Mobutu's Zaire? within a specific period, 1990-1996, by describing how dance music and politics collaborated to reinforce a uniquely modern tradition authoritarian rule [1965-1997] (p. 249). A rule which began with a seizure power supported by Belgium and the United States. Formally known as the Belgium Congo, Mobutu's Republic Zaire advocated Mobutism, rhetorically translated as nationalism, revolution, and authenticity, language which economic and political independence would be achieved, and capitalism and communism would be supplanted. Instead, what Mobutism came stand for was corruption and injustice. White analysis gives credit Zairian dance music, in particular the practice libanga, praise singing and immortalizing businessmen and politicians, as contributing the uneasy support Mobutu's big man leadership. Rumba rules: The politics dance music in Mobutu's Zaire, makes it clear that and political culture has propped each other through tangible relations clientelism and praise but also a common idiom big man-style leadership (p. 15); a style present in both the government and the music bands. Based on this, White asks if popular dance music can reveal something new about politics in Mobutu's Zaire? (p. 15), and proceeds respond the many factors embedded in this question. Beginning with chapter one, he outlines the theoretical concepts that underline the study and goes on provide an overview musical genres practiced in Kinshasa, Zaire while describing the relationship between political economy, dance music club performances, and live music concerts in Kinshasa. As the chapters progress the factor upward mobility and the role the lyric for musicians and singers within a dance music context emerges. Musical group organizations and the hierarchies the groups themselves, often mimicking Zairian political hierarchies, appear as a representation of a skewed version local ideas about musical and political leadership (p. …" @default.
• W286997981 created "2016-06-24" @default.
• W286997981 creator A5081705997 @default.
• W286997981 date "2013-09-22" @default.
• W286997981 modified "2023-09-26" @default.
• W286997981 title "White, Bob W.: Rumba Rules: The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu's Zaire" @default.
• W286997981 hasPublicationYear "2013" @default.
• W286997981 type Work @default.
• W286997981 sameAs 286997981 @default.
• W286997981 citedByCount "0" @default.
• W286997981 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
• W286997981 hasAuthorship W286997981A5081705997 @default.
• W286997981 hasConcept C104317684 @default.
• W286997981 hasConcept C107993555 @default.
• W286997981 hasConcept C121332964 @default.
• W286997981 hasConcept C124952713 @default.
• W286997981 hasConcept C142362112 @default.
• W286997981 hasConcept C144024400 @default.
• W286997981 hasConcept C147446459 @default.
• W286997981 hasConcept C163258240 @default.
• W286997981 hasConcept C17744445 @default.
• W286997981 hasConcept C185592680 @default.
• W286997981 hasConcept C199539241 @default.
• W286997981 hasConcept C29595303 @default.
• W286997981 hasConcept C55493867 @default.
• W286997981 hasConcept C56273599 @default.
• W286997981 hasConcept C62520636 @default.
• W286997981 hasConcept C94625758 @default.
• W286997981 hasConceptScore W286997981C104317684 @default.
• W286997981 hasConceptScore W286997981C107993555 @default.
• W286997981 hasConceptScore W286997981C121332964 @default.
• W286997981 hasConceptScore W286997981C124952713 @default.
• W286997981 hasConceptScore W286997981C142362112 @default.
• W286997981 hasConceptScore W286997981C144024400 @default.
• W286997981 hasConceptScore W286997981C147446459 @default.
• W286997981 hasConceptScore W286997981C163258240 @default.
• W286997981 hasConceptScore W286997981C17744445 @default.
• W286997981 hasConceptScore W286997981C185592680 @default.
• W286997981 hasConceptScore W286997981C199539241 @default.
• W286997981 hasConceptScore W286997981C29595303 @default.
• W286997981 hasConceptScore W286997981C55493867 @default.
• W286997981 hasConceptScore W286997981C56273599 @default.
• W286997981 hasConceptScore W286997981C62520636 @default.
• W286997981 hasConceptScore W286997981C94625758 @default.
• W286997981 hasIssue "2" @default.
• W286997981 hasLocation W2869979811 @default.
• W286997981 hasOpenAccess W286997981 @default.
• W286997981 hasPrimaryLocation W2869979811 @default.
• W286997981 hasRelatedWork W158703186 @default.
• W286997981 hasRelatedWork W174093774 @default.
• W286997981 hasRelatedWork W1980391198 @default.
• W286997981 hasRelatedWork W1997024848 @default.
• W286997981 hasRelatedWork W2083897106 @default.
• W286997981 hasRelatedWork W211083315 @default.
• W286997981 hasRelatedWork W2112559338 @default.
• W286997981 hasRelatedWork W2134208727 @default.
• W286997981 hasRelatedWork W2403199760 @default.
• W286997981 hasRelatedWork W2474270574 @default.
• W286997981 hasRelatedWork W2523444791 @default.
• W286997981 hasRelatedWork W2571255543 @default.
• W286997981 hasRelatedWork W2603999252 @default.
• W286997981 hasRelatedWork W2890553827 @default.
• W286997981 hasRelatedWork W2891094657 @default.
• W286997981 hasRelatedWork W3043452619 @default.
• W286997981 hasRelatedWork W37090085 @default.
• W286997981 hasRelatedWork W598435470 @default.
• W286997981 hasRelatedWork W647554311 @default.
• W286997981 hasRelatedWork W3139022912 @default.
• W286997981 hasVolume "30" @default.
• W286997981 isParatext "false" @default.
• W286997981 isRetracted "false" @default.
• W286997981 magId "286997981" @default.
• W286997981 workType "article" @default.