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Global Popular Musics and Changing Awareness of Urban Tanzanian Youth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2019

Pieter Remes
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If “ordinary people [in Africa] tend to be invisible and inaudible” (Barber 1987), African youth initially appear to be the silent majority. Yet youth are becoming increasingly audible. In Tanzania (and elsewhere in Africa) urban youth and young adults have absorbed global popular musics like rap and reggae and have created local, loud varieties, and are thus making sure their experience is no longer invisible. Access to, and incorporation of, global popular musics — and other elements of globalized popular culture like fashion, food, dance, and sports — have intensified with the rapid mediatization of Tanzanian society in the 1990s. In this article I will focus on the relationship between global popular musics and the experiences of Tanzanian urban youth in the 1990s.

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Yearbook for Traditional Music , Volume 31 , 1999 , pp. 1 - 26
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Copyright © 1999 by the International Council for Traditional Music

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