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Not only does he make use of interviews with an astonishing number of Congolese artists, but he also uses his own vantage point as observer and participant in the wild, yet well-choreographed live performance that created what Victor Turner has called a communitas. White's most powerful argumen...

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Published in:African Arts 2010, Vol.43 (1), p.94-94
Main Author: Gondola, Ch. Didier
Format: Review
Language:English
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Summary:Not only does he make use of interviews with an astonishing number of Congolese artists, but he also uses his own vantage point as observer and participant in the wild, yet well-choreographed live performance that created what Victor Turner has called a communitas. White's most powerful argument has to do with the ways in which Zaire's popular music scene came to mirror and reproduce the hubris and foibles of Zaire's political establishment, an argument that could be made for virtually every cultural and social space in Mobutu's Zaire.
ISSN:0001-9933
1937-2108
DOI:10.1162/afar.2010.43.1.94