Ugandan Music in the Marketing Era: The Branded Arena
David G. Pier offers an ethnographic study of the Senator Extravaganza traditional dance competition in Uganda, and the performers, marketers, and other actors who were involved in it. Pier illustrates the event as part of a broader moment in Ugandan and African public culture - one in which marketing is playing an increasingly dominant role.
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Ugandan Music in the Marketing Era: The Branded Arena
David G. Pier offers an ethnographic study of the Senator Extravaganza traditional dance competition in Uganda, and the performers, marketers, and other actors who were involved in it. Pier illustrates the event as part of a broader moment in Ugandan and African public culture - one in which marketing is playing an increasingly dominant role.
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Ugandan Music in the Marketing Era: The Branded Arena

Ugandan Music in the Marketing Era: The Branded Arena

by David G. Pier
Ugandan Music in the Marketing Era: The Branded Arena

Ugandan Music in the Marketing Era: The Branded Arena

by David G. Pier

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Overview

David G. Pier offers an ethnographic study of the Senator Extravaganza traditional dance competition in Uganda, and the performers, marketers, and other actors who were involved in it. Pier illustrates the event as part of a broader moment in Ugandan and African public culture - one in which marketing is playing an increasingly dominant role.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781137549396
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date: 10/25/2015
Edition description: 1st ed. 2015
Pages: 205
Product dimensions: 5.80(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

David G. Pier is Assistant Professor in the Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. An ethnomusicologist studying music and cultural politics in Africa and the United States, his work has been published in such leading journals as Africa.

Table of Contents

PART I: INTRODUCTION: DANCE PROMOTION IN THE MARKETING ERA
1. The Senator Extravaganza and the Moral Imagination of Marketing
PART II: INTERLUDE: WITNESSING THE EXTRAVAGANZA 
2. "Discover Our Land, Our Cultures": The Musical Imagination of a Rural-Ethnic Nation
3. Women's Groups and their Politics of Musical Promotion
4. The Music of a Senator Extravaganza Performance
5. Beyond the Senator Extravaganza: Marketing Ugandan Music to International Not-for-Profits
PART III: CONCLUSION: P'BITEK'S ARENA

 

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