An

important development in the ethnomusicology

of East Africa since the turn of the twenty-first
century has been the emergence of a new generation
of professionally trained scholars from East African
countries who have contributed to the ongoing
decolonisation of musical scholarship in Africa. This
book presents new work primarily by Uganda-based
researchers, from students to senior academic staff,
and solidly places that work within the international
scholarly ethnomusicological conversation. The book
also contains contributions from researchers based
elsewhere in East Africa and in Europe, creating an
international scholarly dialogue on music in East
Africa.

The papers in the book cover a wide range of topics
and musical types, including discussions of the
history of research on music in East Africa, studies of
contemporary musical expressions including ritual
and religious musics and urban popular music, and
theoretical explorations of the postcolonial contexts
of African musics in East Africa and Europe.

Fountain Publishers Kampala, Uganda
2012 / ISBN 978-9970-25-135-3 (paper)
xvi + 255 pp. / 12 illustrations / 8 musical examples

Contents: Foreword / Preface / Introduction / Part One: Klaus Wachsmanns Legacy: Uganda and Beyond: The Legacy
of Klaus Wachsmann, Peter Cooke / Klaus Wachsmann and the Changeability of Musical Experience: My Experience as a
Performing Maker of Music, Philipp Wachsmann / Early Studies of the Music of East Africa, Mitchel Strumpf / Connecting
with Communities: Building Sustainable Models for Audiovisual Archiving into the Future, Janet Topp Fargion / Part Two:
Music, Religion and Ritual in East Africa: The Role of Music, Dance and Drama in Imbalu Ritual, Wotsuna Khamalwa /
From Entering and Hatching to being Clothed into Manhood: Integration of Music and Dance in Imbalu Circumcision
Rituals among the Bagisu (Eastern Uganda), Dominic D. B. Makwa / Music and Islam in Uganda: Diverse Opinions and
Practices, Abasi Kiyimba / Disko la Yesu: A Strategy for Attracting and Retaining Members in the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in Northwest Tanzania, Jenitha Abela Kameli / Glocalising Catholicism in Uganda through Musical Performance:
Case Study of the Kampala Archdiocesan Schools Music Festivals, Nicholas Ssempijja / Pentecostal Gospel Music in
Kampala, Uganda: Between the Sacred and the Secular, David Basoga / Part Three: Music and Politics in a Global and
Postcolonial Era: Politics of Competition in the Pearl of Africa Music (PAM) Awards: Construction of Popular Music in
Uganda, Anita Desire Asaasira / Digital Technology Creating Musicians: Compromising Creativity, Dehumanising Music and
Questioning Ownership? Pamela Mbabazi / Sounding the War: Acholi Popular Music in the Peace Process in Northern
Uganda, Stella Wadiru / What Is African Music? Conceptualisations of African Music in Bergen (Norway) and Uppsala
(Sweden), Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza / Where Is the Postcolonial in Ethnomusicology? Thomas Solomon

About the editors:

Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza is Associate Professor of Music in the Department of Performing Arts and Film at Makerere
University, and Curator of the Makerere University Klaus Wachsmann Music Archive. Her publications include Baakisimba:
Gender in Music and Dance of the Baganda People of Uganda (Routledge, 2005), as well as articles in journals and edited
volumes on various topics relating to traditional and popular musics in Uganda.
Thomas Solomon is Professor in the Grieg Academy-Department of Music at the University of Bergen. His publications
include articles in journals and edited volumes on topics ranging from indigenous music in highland Bolivia to Turkish
popular music. He is also editor of Music and Identity in Norway and Beyond: Essays Commemorating Edvard Grieg the
Humanist (Fagbokforlaget, 2011).

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