DUELING BANDS AND GOOD GIRLS: GENDER, MUSIC, AND NATION IN LUANDA'S MUSSEQUES, 1961-1974.

The article explores the relationship between gender and the musical production of the nation in Luanda, Angola's musseques, that is, urban shanty towns. Urban Africans took advantage of reforms in colonial policy instituted between 1961 and 1974 to improve their daily lives, carve out new cultural...

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Published in:	International Journal of African Historical Studies Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 255 - 289
Main Author:	Moorman, Marissa J.
Format:	Article
Published:	Trustees of Boston University, acting through its African Studies Center 2004
Subjects:	Music Gender Squatter settlements Popular music Culture Africans
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost