1 online resource (xii, 228 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Popular music censorship in Africa : an overview / Martin Cloonan -- The cultural boycott against apartheid South Africa : a case of defensible censorship? / Michael Drewett -- Vocal killers, silent killers : popular media, genocide, and the call for benevolent censorship in Rwanda / Dylan Craig and Nomalanga Mkhize -- Racist hate speech in South Africa's fragile democracy : the case of Ngema's 'AmaNdiya' / Gary Baines -- Zvakwana! Enough! : media control and unofficial censorship of music in Zimbabwe / Diane Thram -- And the beat goes on? : message music, political repression and the power of hip-hop in Nigeria / Wilson Akpan -- Traditional and popular music, hegemonic power and censorship in Malawi : 1964-1994 / Reuben M Chirambo -- Why don't you sing about the leaves and the dreams? : reflecting on music censorship in apartheid South Africa / Johnny Clegg and Michael Drewett -- Popular music censorship in Tanzania / Kelly M. Askew and John F. Kitime -- Silencing musical expression in colonial and post-colonial Kenya / Peter Muhoro Mwangi -- One hundred years of censorship in Ghanaian popular music performance / John Collins -- Where the shoe pinches : the imprisonment of Franco Luambo Makiadi as a curious example of music censorship in Zaïre / Graeme Ewens -- For a song : censure in Algerian rai music / Malika Mehdid -- Concluding comments on the censorship of popular music in Africa / Martin Cloonan and Michael Drewett

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Popular music censorship in Africa : an overview / Martin Cloonan -- The cultural boycott against apartheid South Africa : a case of defensible censorship? / Michael Drewett -- Vocal killers, silent killers : popular media, genocide, and the call for benevolent censorship in Rwanda / Dylan Craig and Nomalanga Mkhize -- Racist hate speech in South Africa's fragile democracy : the case of Ngema's 'AmaNdiya' / Gary Baines -- Zvakwana! Enough! : media control and unofficial censorship of music in Zimbabwe / Diane Thram -- And the beat goes on? : message music, political repression and the power of hip-hop in Nigeria / Wilson Akpan -- Traditional and popular music, hegemonic power and censorship in Malawi : 1964-1994 / Reuben M Chirambo -- Why don't you sing about the leaves and the dreams? : reflecting on music censorship in apartheid South Africa / Johnny Clegg and Michael Drewett -- Popular music censorship in Tanzania / Kelly M. Askew and John F. Kitime -- Silencing musical expression in colonial and post-colonial Kenya / Peter Muhoro Mwangi -- One hundred years of censorship in Ghanaian popular music performance / John Collins -- Where the shoe pinches : the imprisonment of Franco Luambo Makiadi as a curious example of music censorship in Zaire / Graeme Ewens -- For a song : censure in Algerian rai music / Malika Mehdid -- Concluding comments on the censorship of popular music in Africa / Martin Cloonan and Michael Drewett

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