The Revolution's Echoes: Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea by Dave, Nomi

The Revolution's Echoes: Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea

Music has long been an avenue for protest, seen as a way to promote freedom and equality,...
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Author: Nomi Dave
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The Revolution's Echoes: Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea by Dave, Nomi

The Revolution's Echoes: Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea

BD$75.21

The Revolution's Echoes: Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea

BD$75.21
Author: Nomi Dave
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Music has long been an avenue for protest, seen as a way to promote freedom and equality, instill hope, and fight for change. Popular music, in particular, is considered to be an effective form of subversion and resistance under oppressive circumstances. But, as Nomi Dave shows us in The Revolution's Echoes, the opposite is also true: music can often support, rather than challenge, the powers that be.

Dave introduces readers to the music supporting the authoritarian regime of former Guinean president S kou Tour , and the musicians who, even long after his death, have continued to praise dictators and avoid dissent. Dave shows that this isn't just the result of state manipulation; even in the absence of coercion, musicians and their audiences take real pleasure in musical praise of leaders. Time and again, whether in traditional music or in newer genres such as rap, Guinean musicians have celebrated state power and authority. With The Revolution's Echoes, Dave insists that we must grapple with the uncomfortable truth that some forms of music choose to support authoritarianism, generating new pleasures and new politics in the process.

Author: Nomi Dave
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 10/02/2019
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780226654638

About the Author
Nomi Dave is assistant professor of music at the University of Virginia. She previously trained as a human rights lawyer and worked on issues of refugee and immigrant rights and women's rights in the United States and Guinea.


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