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Date de parution

27 juin 2008

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9780822389262

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Poids de l'ouvrage

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Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) from 1965 until 1997, was fond of saying "happy are those who sing and dance," and his regime energetically promoted the notion of culture as a national resource. During this period Zairian popular dance music (often referred to as la rumba zairoise) became a sort of musica franca in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa. But how did this privileged form of cultural expression, one primarily known for a sound of sweetness and joy, flourish under one of the continent's most brutal authoritarian regimes? In Rumba Rules, the first ethnography of popular music in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bob W. White examines not only the economic and political conditions that brought this powerful music industry to its knees, but also the ways that popular musicians sought to remain socially relevant in a time of increasing insecurity.Drawing partly on his experiences as a member of a local dance band in the country's capital city Kinshasa, White offers extraordinarily vivid accounts of the live music scene, including the relatively recent phenomenon of libanga, which involves shouting the names of wealthy or powerful people during performances in exchange for financial support or protection. With dynamic descriptions of how bands practiced, performed, and splintered, White highlights how the ways that power was sought and understood in Kinshasa's popular music scene mirrored the charismatic authoritarianism of Mobutu's rule. In Rumba Rules, Congolese speak candidly about political leadership, social mobility, and what it meant to be a bon chef (good leader) in Mobutu's Zaire.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

27 juin 2008

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780822389262

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

11 Mo

Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) from 1965 until 1997, was fond of saying “happy are those who sing and dance,” and his regime energetically promoted the notion of culture as a national resource. During his reign, Zair-ian popular dance music became a sort of musica franca in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa. But how did this privileged form of cultural expression, one primarily known for a sound of sweetness and joy, Lourish under one of the continent’s most brutal au-thoritarian regimes? InRumba Rules, the îrst ethnography of popular music in the Demo-cratic Republic of Congo, Bob W. White de-scribes the economic and political conditions that brought this powerful music industry to its knees in the 1980s, and he explores how popular musicians sought to remain socially relevant in the increasing insecurity of the 1990s. Through White’s dynamic descrip-tions of how bands practiced, performed, and splintered, Congolese speak candidly about policical culture, social mobility, and what it means to be abon chef(good leader) in Mobutu’s Zaire.

Bob W. White

IS aSSOCIàTE pROFESSOR OF aNTHROPOlOGY àT THE uNIVERSITY OF MONTREàl.

“WHàT bEGàN wITH àN ExTRàORdINàRY FEàT OF ImmERSION INTO kINSHàSà’S mUSIC SCENE TOwàRd THE ENd OF MObUTU’S RE-GImE HàS bEEN HONEd àNd CRàFTEd INTO à STUdY OF cONGOlESE POPUlàR CUlTURE àNd POlITICS THàT IS bOUNd TO bECOmE à ClàS-SIC. a FEàT OF ETHNOGRàPHY àNd à mUCH-NEEdEd RàY OF HOPE IN THESE mESSY àNd TRàGIC TImES.”—Johannes Fabian, author ofMemory against Culture: Arguments and Reminders

“Rumba Rules IS à REàllY ExCITING bOOK, dEîNITElY wORTHY OF THE ‘GROUNdbREàKING’ àNd ‘SORElY NEEdEd’ làbElS IT IS bOUNd TO àTTRàCT. iT IS FUll OF THE bàSICS àNd THE NUàNCES; dEEPlY INFORmàTIVE àbOUT à PlàCE, à SCENE, à lOCàl HISTORY, àNd lIVEd REàlITIES; àNd dEEPlY àCCOUNTàblE TO dEbàTES àNd dISCUS-SIONS àbOUT HOw POPUlàR CUlTURE ENCOdES à FEElING OF àNd FOR mOdERNITY.”—Steven Feld, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Music, University of New Mexico

“Rumba RulesTIES dàNCE mUSIC TO dICTàTORSHIP, bàNd lEàd-ERS TO POlITICIàNS, IN wàYS THàT àRE SENSITIVE TO THE STRUGGlES OF cONGOlESE mUSICIàNS àNd THEIR FàNS IN kINSHàSà. BOb W. WHITE NEITHER dImINISHES THE àRTISTRY àNd ENTERTàINmENT VàlUE OF mUSICàl PERFORmàNCES NOR OVER-dETERmINES THEIR ROlE IN POlITICàl CUlTURE. tHIS IS à bOOK THàT îNElY THEORIzES THE RElàTIONSHIP bETwEEN àESTHETICS àNd POlITICàl CUlTURE THROUGH VIVId àNd OFTEN àmUSING STORYTEllING.”—Louise Meintjes, author ofSound of Africa! Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio

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Tô Luce, Jeey, Aa, ad pccôlô

SçÉ É àŝ àÉ ûŝ  É à, É  ô ôÉ àôû ûŝ! É  àÉ  ôŝŝÉ ô ûŝ ô à ûŝç! Tà  ÉàÉ ûŝ ô àÉ çàÉ ô ôûŝÉÉŝ, ŝÉà ô  ûŝ à ŝ ÉÉ ô àÉ çàÉ ô ûŝ. É  ààŝ  ô ûŝ, ÉçàûŝÉ ŝôÉÉŝ É ôÉ ô îŝ à É ŝàÉ! É ûŝ çôûÉ ô ŝ à É  É Éŝ ô çôôŝ! wÉ É ô ûŝç. É ôû ûŝç î à àçÉ  É ŝô ô ZàÉ ô É ÉÉàôŝ ô ôû çÉ à ôû àçÉ! wÉ  É ûîÉ ô É ŝô à ô ÉÉ É ŝ ô ôû àçÉŝôŝ, ûŝ àŝ É ŝÉÉ Éŝ  ôÉŝ ô àÉ ŝçÉÉ.

“MESSAGE FROM ARTISTS TO

PRESIDENT MOBUTU SESE SEKO,” 1974

À àÉŝ à ŝô û ôÉ É ’àŝÉ, û ŝçàŝÉ û Éàû, û ŝûÉ, É à ôûŝŝàçÉ, Éŝ ôFÉÉ ûÉ É-ŝÉçÉ ÉŝûÉ ŝû ’ÉÉçÉ É ŝû É ŝàô.

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5. mUŝcànŝ ànd môtY 131

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