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Brass bands and the beni phenomenon in urban east Africa

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: With the advent of the German and British colonial administrations to the coast of East Africa in the late 1800s came also the complements of military machinery and military music. This paper will investigate the impact of the music of the European military brass band on the coastal and inland areas of Tanganyika as manifested in the development, florescence and demise of beni ngoma.

Source: African Music Journal of the International Library of African Music

DOI: 10.21504/amj.v7i1.1931

Author: Stephen H. Martin

Institution: University of Alabama

Language: English

Topic: African history and culture studies

Subfield: Anthropology

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W164256512

FWCI: 14.32

Cites: 16

Cited by: 22

Related to: 10