A Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to Recent Times
by
Marissa J. Moorman
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
Intonations tells the story of how Angola’s urban residents in the late colonial period (roughly 1945–74) used music to talk back to their colonial oppressors and, more importantly, to define what it meant to be Angolan and what they hoped to gain from independence. A compilation of Angolan music...