Brass bands and the beni phenomenon in urban east Africa
Abstract
- Abstract
- With the advent of the German and British colonial administrations to the coast of East Africa in the late 1800s came also the complements of military machinery and military music. This paper will investigate the impact of the music of the European military brass band on the coastal and inland areas of Tanganyika as manifested in the development, florescence and demise of beni ngoma.
Description
- Description
- pages: 72-81
Subjects
- Subject
- African Music
People & roles
- Author
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Martin, Stephen H.
Value Annotations
Value Annotations
- Is Part Of
- University of Alabama
Origins & context
- Title
- Brass bands and the beni phenomenon in urban east Africa
- Type
- Text
- Language
- English
- Parent project
- International Library of African Music
- is funded by
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Rhodes University
- Place of Origin
- South Africa
- Created Date
- July 12, 2017
Rights & access
- License
- CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
- Access Rights
- Public
Identifiers & sources
- DRE ID
- eaa-99-0256
- Identifier
-
1931
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- Type
- Publisher, distributor, or vendor stock number
Further details
- WissKI URL
- 79608