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Necessary noise : music, film, and charitable imperialism in the east of Congo / Chérie Rivers Ndaliko.
Author
Ndaliko, Chérie Rivers
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Description
xix, 285 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Availability
Available Online
Oxford Scholarship - Oxford University Press: Music
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Mendel Music Library - Stacks
ML350.5 .N32 2016
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Music
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Congo (Democratic Republic)
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History and criticism
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Music
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Social aspects
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Congo (Democratic Republic).
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Summary note
Since 1997, the war in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has taken more than 6 million lives and shapes the daily existence of the nation's residents. While the DRC is often portrayed in international media as an unproductive failed state, the Congolese have turned increasingly to art-making to express their experience to external eyes. Author Chérie Rivers Ndaliko argues that cultural activism and the enthusiasm to produce art exists in Congo as a remedy for the social ills of war and as a way to communicate a positive vision of the country. Ndaliko introduces a memorable cast of artists, activists, and ordinary people from the North-Kivu province, whose artistic and cultural interventions are routinely excluded from global debates that prioritize economics, politics, and development as the basis of policy decision about Congo. Rivers also shows how art has been mobilized by external humanitarian and charitable organizations, becoming the vehicle through which to inflict new kinds of imperial domination. Written by a scholar and activist in the center of the current public policy debate, Necessary Noise examines the uneasy balance of accomplishing change through art against the unsteady background of war. At the heart of this book is the Yole!Africa cultural center, which is the oldest independent cultural center in the east of Congo. Established in the aftermath of volcano Nyiragongo's 2002 eruption and sustained through a series of armed conflicts, the cultural activities organized by Yole!Africa have shaped a generation of Congolese youth into socially and politically engaged citizens. By juxtaposing intimate ethnographic, aesthetic, and theoretical analyses of this thriving local initiative with case studies that expose the often destructive underbelly of charitable action, Necessary Noise introduces into heated international debates on aid and sustainable development a compelling case for the necessity of arts and culture in negotiating sustained peace. Through vivid descriptions of a community of young people transforming their lives through art, Ndaliko humanizes a dire humanitarian disaster. In so doing, she invites readers to reflect on the urgent choices we must navigate as globally responsible citizens.--Publisher's website.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-271), filmography (pages 257-259) and index.
Contents
Art on the Frontline
Re-membering Congo
Peacemongers --Jazz Mamas
Epilogue.
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ISBN
9780190499570 (hardcover ; : alkaline paper)
0190499575
9780190499587 (paperback ; : alkaline paper)
0190499583
LCCN
2015049373
OCLC
933432310
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