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Music in Kenyan Christianity: Logooli Religious Song
This sensitive study is a historical, cultural, and musical exploration of Christian religious music among the Logooli of Western Kenya. It describes how new musical styles developed through contact with popular radio and other media from abroad and became markers of the Logooli identity and culture. Jean Ngoya Kidula narrates this history of a community through music and religious expression in local, national, and global settings. The book is generously enhanced by audiovisual material on the Ethnomusicology Multimedia website.
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Music in Kenyan Christianity: Logooli Religious Song
This sensitive study is a historical, cultural, and musical exploration of Christian religious music among the Logooli of Western Kenya. It describes how new musical styles developed through contact with popular radio and other media from abroad and became markers of the Logooli identity and culture. Jean Ngoya Kidula narrates this history of a community through music and religious expression in local, national, and global settings. The book is generously enhanced by audiovisual material on the Ethnomusicology Multimedia website.
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Music in Kenyan Christianity: Logooli Religious Song
This sensitive study is a historical, cultural, and musical exploration of Christian religious music among the Logooli of Western Kenya. It describes how new musical styles developed through contact with popular radio and other media from abroad and became markers of the Logooli identity and culture. Jean Ngoya Kidula narrates this history of a community through music and religious expression in local, national, and global settings. The book is generously enhanced by audiovisual material on the Ethnomusicology Multimedia website.
Jean Ngoya Kidula is Associate Professor of Music and Ethnomusicology at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, University of Georgia. She is author (with R. R. King, T. Oduro, and J. R. Krabill) of Music in the Life of the African Church.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgmentsNote on Spelling and OrthographyList of Abbreviations1. Prelude2. Assembly: Logooli Historical, Cultural, and Musical Background3. Encounter: Avalogooli and Euro-American Religion, Culture, and Music4. Consolidation: Christian Religious Genres in Logooli-Land5. Accommodation: Logooli Adoption and Use of "Book" Music6. Syncretism: Logooli Christian Songs of the Spirit7. Invocation: Logooli Christian Songs in Contemporary Education and Media8. EpilogueAppendix I: Archival and Media House RecordsAppendix II: Song Text and Hymn Tune SourcesGlossary of TermsNotesBibliographyIndex
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Wesleyan University - Eric Charry
The author has extraordinary access and insight into how song functions among the Logooli. The book contains an excellent mix of deep personal understanding of the culture and copious documentation.
Universityof Pennsylvania - Carol Muller
The archival and ethnographic research is outstanding, the accounts of mission history, and then the musical explanations of a variety of forms of change that have accompanied mission intervention, the incursion of forms of modernity, and globalization at large are compelling and unparalleled.