Popular Music Censorship in Africa

In this volume, Drewett (sociology, Rhodes U., South Africa) and Cloonan (popular music, U. of Glasgow, UK) assemble 14 essays that examine the censorship of musicians in colonial and post-colonial Africa and their strategies of resistance. Censorship issues and characteristics are first considered, with chapters addressing racist hate speech, media control, and political repression and hip-hop. Other chapters focus on case studies of censorship and musicians in Malawi, Nigeria, apartheid South Africa, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, Ghana, Zaire, and Algeria. Contributors are scholars of sociology, anthropology, history, music, and other fields, as well as musicians and writers. They are based in Africa, the US, and the UK. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Michael Drewett is based in the Department of Sociology, Rhodes University, South Africa. Martin Cloonan is based in the Department of Music at the University of Glasgow, Scotland