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Waka Music as a Commentary on Yoruba Society in Post-Colonial Nigeria: A Review of Two Female Musicians 瓦卡音乐作为对后殖民时期尼日利亚约鲁巴社会的评论——对两位女音乐家的评论
Pub Date : 2022-01-31 DOI: 10.56279/ummaj.v9i2.8
M. Oladejo
In pre-colonial and colonial Yoruba societies, music was an integral part of everyday life. Scholarly works have differentiated music genres among the Yoruba with attempts made to analyse their historical background. Even though the Yoruba music industry is a male-dominated industry with concentration on Fuji, Highlife and Juju music, the few female musicians in the industry have created a distinct genre known as Waka music. This article argues that the Waka music of the female musicians presents a perspective for understanding the feminisation of music and the challenges of development in Southwestern Nigerian cities from the immediate postcolonial era. Moreover, against the stereotype that women lack insights into social issues, this work displays that Waka music by female singers, Batuli Alake and Salawa Abeni, illustrate how an agency of communication and relevance is created. The career history of both women serves a basis for unravelling feminist struggles to eke out a livelihood in postcolonial Nigeria. The article adopted an historical approach in its analysis. It employed both primary and secondary sources such as online interview excerpts, newspapers, journals and books. The findings show that Waka music has strictly been a sphere of interest that women have sustained in the Yoruba music industry.
在前殖民时期和殖民时期的约鲁巴社会中,音乐是日常生活中不可或缺的一部分。学术著作区分了约鲁巴人的音乐流派,并试图分析他们的历史背景。尽管约鲁巴音乐产业是男性主导的产业,集中在富士,Highlife和Juju音乐上,但该行业中为数不多的女性音乐家创造了一种独特的类型,即Waka音乐。本文认为女音乐家的瓦卡音乐为理解后殖民时代以来尼日利亚西南部城市的音乐女性化和发展挑战提供了一个视角。此外,与女性缺乏对社会问题洞察力的刻板印象相反,这项工作表明,女歌手Batuli Alake和Salawa Abeni的瓦卡音乐说明了如何创造一种沟通和相关性的机构。这两位女性的职业历史为揭示女权主义者在后殖民时代的尼日利亚为维持生计而进行的斗争提供了基础。这篇文章在分析时采用了历史的方法。它采用了主要和次要来源,如在线采访摘录、报纸、期刊和书籍。研究结果表明,瓦卡音乐严格来说是女性在约鲁巴音乐产业中持续存在的兴趣领域。
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‘We are like refuse in front of the guest of honour’ : Dancers’ Struggles and Tribulations in Tanzania “在贵宾面前,我们就像垃圾一样”:坦桑尼亚舞者的挣扎与磨难
Pub Date : 2022-01-31 DOI: 10.56279/ummaj.v9i2.7
D. Sanga
Informed by the theory of attitude and original data gathered with dancers in Dar es Salaam and Iringa, this article argues that dancers in Tanzania are dogged by lack of recognition, infrastructural, attitudinal and economic challenges. These problems arise primarily because dancing is largely an ad hoc and autonomous career that employs a considerable number of Tanzanians regardless of their socio-economic and education background. However, what dancers encounter in the career disappoint many of them particularly when they want to use it to earn a living as terpsichoreans. The article shows that failure of community members and the government to give the performing arts industry, particularly theatre and dancing, the attention it deserves frustrated many artistes including dancers. Thus, the article suggests that government-owned theatrical infrastructures be hired at affordable rates with more theatres to be built to ease the problem of limited venues for theatrical performances. Moreover, dealing with the problem of undervaluing dancers that, subsequently, impact on them economically and how they are perceived also requires a systematic documentation of the contributions of dancers and the theatre industry generally.
根据对达累斯萨拉姆和伊林加舞者的态度理论和原始数据,本文认为坦桑尼亚的舞者受到缺乏认可、基础设施、态度和经济挑战的困扰。出现这些问题的主要原因是,舞蹈在很大程度上是一种临时和自主的职业,雇用了相当多的坦桑尼亚人,无论其社会经济和教育背景如何。然而,舞者在职业生涯中遇到的事情让他们中的许多人失望,尤其是当他们想用它来作为舞蹈家谋生时。这篇文章表明,社区成员和政府未能给予表演艺术产业,特别是戏剧和舞蹈应有的关注,这让包括舞者在内的许多艺术家感到沮丧。因此,本文建议以可负担的价格租用政府拥有的戏剧基础设施,并建造更多的剧院,以缓解戏剧表演场地有限的问题。此外,处理低估舞者的问题,进而影响他们的经济,以及他们如何被看待,也需要对舞者和戏剧行业的贡献进行系统的记录。
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Familial Space and Children’s Social Identity in Elieshi Lema’s Parched Earth: A Love Story 埃利希·勒玛《干涸的地球:一个爱情故事》中的家庭空间与儿童的社会身份
Pub Date : 2022-01-31 DOI: 10.56279/ummaj.v9i2.6
Andreas Komba, Davis Nyanda
This article examines the representation of children’s social identity in Elieshi Lema’s Parched Earth: A Love Story. In the context of family abandonment, this article explores the use of familial space in the narrative and its role in the construction of children’s social identity. In this undertaking, we are primarily guided by Obioma Nnaemeka’s ‘nego-feminism’ and Spain Daphne’s spatial theories, which facilitate an understanding of the role of space in the construction of one’s social identity while challenging the patriarchal assumptions through ‘negotiation’. We argue that familial space plays a crucial role in the construction of children’s social identity. Through the flashback structure, the protagonist narrates her childhood experiences after family abandonment and the experiences of other children to expose the debilitating nature of patriarchy, whose effects cut across age, gender, ethnicity, and social class.
本文考察了埃利希·勒玛的《干涸的地球:一个爱情故事》对儿童社会身份的表现。本文以家庭遗弃为背景,探讨家庭空间在叙事中的运用及其在儿童社会身份建构中的作用。在这项工作中,我们主要以Obioma Nnaemeka的“nego-feminism”和Spain Daphne的空间理论为指导,这些理论有助于理解空间在构建一个人的社会身份中的作用,同时通过“协商”挑战父权假设。我们认为家庭空间在儿童社会认同的建构中起着至关重要的作用。通过闪回结构,主人公讲述了自己被家庭抛弃后的童年经历和其他孩子的经历,揭示了父权制的衰弱本质,父权制的影响跨越了年龄、性别、种族和社会阶层。
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Mini Devils: Dynamics of Power in a Community of Laughter 迷你恶魔:笑声社区中的权力动态
Pub Date : 2022-01-31 DOI: 10.56279/ummaj.v9i2.2
John Wakota
This article examines the role of humour in Wilson Kaigalura’s novel, Mini Devils (2006) primarily because humour and laughter are among the most cherished traits of human being. Yet, what we laugh about, why, and how, are questions of serious concern. Using Susanne Reich and Mark Stein’s (2005) explication of the notion of communities of laughter, this article situates literary humour-laughter relationship within the stimuli-response framework and reads the characters as constituting a community of laughter that functions as an infrastructural site of sociability and socialisation. Drawing upon the theories of power, the article analyses the political and social aspects of humour that come in subtle ways, and yet serve major ways through which to access meanings that reveal, stabilise, or destabilise notions of power in society. This shift, from analysing humour and laughter as aesthetic devices to analysing them as deliberate political acts, can illuminate on our understanding of power dynamics and differentiation in society. The analysis shows that the characters’ performance of humour and its appreciation are goal-oriented and forms of power that are not always monopolised by particularised groups of people but can also be manipulated by all and sundry regardless of their social status in society.
这篇文章探讨了幽默在威尔逊·凯加卢拉的小说《迷你恶魔》(2006)中的作用,主要是因为幽默和笑声是人类最珍视的特征之一。然而,我们笑什么、为什么笑、怎么笑,都是值得严肃关注的问题。本文采用Susanne Reich和Mark Stein(2005)对笑共同体概念的解释,将文学幽默-笑关系置于刺激-反应框架中,并将人物视为构成一个笑共同体的角色,该共同体是社交和社会化的基础设施。根据权力理论,本文分析了幽默的政治和社会方面,这些幽默以微妙的方式出现,但却主要通过这些方式获得揭示、稳定或破坏社会权力概念的意义。从把幽默和笑声作为审美手段分析到把它们作为深思熟虑的政治行为分析,这种转变可以启发我们对权力动态和社会分化的理解。分析表明,人物幽默的表现和欣赏具有目的性,是一种权力形式,并不总是被特定群体所垄断,也可能被所有人所操纵,无论他们在社会中的地位如何。
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Crux of the Bongo Movie from a Digital Disruption Lens 从数字颠覆的角度看邦戈电影的关键
Pub Date : 2022-01-31 DOI: 10.56279/ummaj.v9i2.4
Issa Mbura
This paper reports the findings of a study that had explored digital disruption as an analytical lens developed based on the constructs of two theories: the digital disruption theory and the disruptive innovation theory. The study had employed unstructured in-depth interviews, direct observation and virtual ethnographic to consult media experts, pioneer filmmakers, Bongo Movie’ producers, movies library’s keepers, movie retailers, movie translators (deejays) and social network sites (SNS) to collect data. Based on the study findings, the paper argues that the shift in technological paradigm, specifically from the use of expensive and inaccessible technologies used in filmmaking engendered the development and sustainability of the Bongo Movie genre in Tanzania. This technological paradigm shifts were twofold. To begin with, there was a transition from the use of celluloid film and analogue video cameras to digital video cameras in film production. Second, there was a shift from the use of optical prints and Vertical Helican Scan (VHS) tapes to optical discs such as Digital Versatile Discs (DVD) in the distribution of films. These changes in the technologies used in production and distribution of films provided entrants into the local film industry with necessary tools to produce low-budget films and service the low-end market of the country, which augured well with the country’s resource-poor context. Moreover, these Bongo Movies “disrupted” the erstwhile traditional, established, and stringent patterns of consumption of both locally-produced and foreign-imported films in local film markets. Overall, the Bongo Movie genre evolution appears to be a model of how digitally-motivated disruptions can occur in a local film market in a developing nation’s video-film industries and become a staple particularly among the low-end clientele.
本文报告了一项研究的结果,该研究将数字颠覆作为一种分析视角,基于两种理论的构建:数字颠覆理论和颠覆性创新理论。本研究采用非结构化的深度访谈、直接观察和虚拟人种学的方法,向媒体专家、先锋电影人、Bongo电影制作人、电影图书馆管理员、电影零售商、电影翻译(dj)和社交网站(SNS)咨询,收集数据。基于研究结果,本文认为技术范式的转变,特别是在电影制作中使用昂贵且难以获得的技术,导致了坦桑尼亚邦戈电影类型的发展和可持续发展。这种技术范式的转变是双重的。首先,电影制作中出现了从使用赛璐珞胶片和模拟摄像机到使用数字摄像机的过渡。其次,在电影发行中,从使用光学打印和垂直螺旋扫描(VHS)磁带转向使用数字多功能光盘(DVD)等光盘。电影制作和发行技术的这些变化为进入当地电影行业的人提供了制作低成本电影和服务该国低端市场的必要工具,这在该国资源贫乏的背景下是一个好兆头。此外,这些邦戈电影“颠覆”了过去传统的、既定的、严格的本土电影和外国进口电影在本土电影市场上的消费模式。总的来说,邦戈电影类型的演变似乎是一种模式,表明数字驱动的颠覆如何在发展中国家的视频电影行业的当地电影市场中发生,并成为一种主要产品,特别是在低端客户中。
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Songs and Language: Children’s Songs and the Learning of Kiswahili in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 歌曲与语言:坦桑尼亚达累斯萨拉姆儿童歌曲与斯瓦希里语学习
Pub Date : 2022-01-31 DOI: 10.56279/ummaj.v9i2.3
Kassomo Mkallyah
This paper focuses on the use of children’s songs in learning Kiswahili language in Dar es Salaam Tanzania. Usually, songs serve different purposes including transmission of knowledge, values, and language. It argues that children’s songs serve as a means for learning Kiswahili and indigenous culture. The study was conducted at Msewe, Kimara and Changanyikeni nursery schools located in Ubungo municipality of Dar es Salaam. The data was collected using interviews, observations, discussion, and documentation. In this empirical research, the study analysed the Kiswahili songs, lyrics and associated information collected with the children at these schools. With recourse to the participant and arousal theory, the study found that, apart from learning word sounds and singing, songs help children to learn pronunciation and application of words found in songs in their day-to-day communication. The tunes and rhythms of these songs support the children’s acquaintance with Kiswahili words. Furthermore, the songs’ lyrics enables children to construct Kiswahili sentences and structures, thereby enhances their learning of Kiswahili language.
本文主要研究了坦桑尼亚达累斯萨拉姆儿童在斯瓦希里语学习中的应用。通常,歌曲有不同的目的,包括传递知识、价值观和语言。它认为,儿童歌曲是学习斯瓦希里语和土著文化的一种手段。这项研究是在达累斯萨拉姆市优戈市的Msewe、Kimara和Changanyikeni幼儿园进行的。数据是通过访谈、观察、讨论和文档收集的。在这项实证研究中,研究分析了从这些学校的孩子们那里收集的斯瓦希里语歌曲、歌词和相关信息。根据参与者和唤醒理论,研究发现,除了学习单词的发音和唱歌,歌曲还可以帮助儿童在日常交流中学习歌曲中单词的发音和应用。这些歌曲的曲调和节奏支持孩子们熟悉斯瓦希里语词汇。此外,歌曲的歌词使孩子们能够构建斯瓦希里语的句子和结构,从而提高他们对斯瓦希里语的学习。
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The Mkwawa Portrait Conundrum: A Quest for Facial Similitude 姆克瓦瓦肖像之谜:对面部相似性的探索
Pub Date : 2022-01-31 DOI: 10.56279/ummaj.v9i2.1
Dominicus Makukula
This paper reports the findings of an investigation that was carried out to determine the accuracy of the facial likeness of Paramount Chief Mkwawa to his representative portrait created in 1954, with the intent to complement the missing part of his face following the return of his skull from Germany where it had been kept for 56 years. Since its creation, the portrait sought to approximate the actual face of Mkwawa, which had been badly damaged from a gunshot wound and the ensuing maceration process by Tom von Prince before he shipped the skull to Bremen, Germany in July 1898. Since its return to the then Tanganyika, local and foreign researchers have engaged in endless debate on its authenticity while ignoring discussions on Mkwawa’s facial appearance in most of their publications on the topic. Employing the Imitation Theory of Art, this paper extends the inquiry on the legitimacy of Mkwawa’s skull to his portrait, created to complement the missing flesh on the skull. Data for the study had been collected using critical interviews and document review. Meanwhile, analysis entailed a comparative examination of the facial features on the original photograph of Mkwawa’s head against photographs of his lineal descendants. Besides, a review was carried out of the artist’s skills of portraiture and knowledge of principles of art, as well as narratives of the respondents on the portrait creation process. Findings show that the portrait depicted a striking facial resemblance to Mkwawa’s descendants involved in his portrait creation process except for the spiritual aura and the imagined facial expression of the paramount Chief himself.
本文报道了一项调查的结果,该调查是为了确定派拉蒙酋长姆瓦瓦的面部肖像与他1954年创作的代表肖像的准确性,目的是补充他的头骨从德国返回后缺失的部分,他的头骨在德国保存了56年。自创作以来,这幅肖像一直试图接近姆瓦瓦的真实脸,这幅脸在1898年7月被汤姆·冯·普林斯(Tom von Prince)运往德国不来梅之前,因枪伤和随后的浸湿过程而严重受损。自从它回到当时的坦噶尼喀以来,国内外的研究人员对它的真实性进行了无休止的争论,而在他们关于这个主题的大多数出版物中,却忽略了对Mkwawa面部外貌的讨论。本文运用艺术的模仿理论,将对姆瓦瓦头骨合法性的探究延伸到他的肖像上,这是为了补充头骨上缺失的肉而创作的。这项研究的数据是通过批判性访谈和文件审查收集的。与此同时,分析需要将姆克瓦瓦头部的原始照片上的面部特征与他的直系后裔的照片进行比较检查。此外,还回顾了艺术家的肖像技巧和艺术原理知识,以及受访者对肖像创作过程的叙述。研究结果表明,除了精神光环和想象中的最高酋长本人的面部表情外,这幅肖像描绘的面部与参与其肖像创作过程的姆克瓦瓦的后代惊人地相似。
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Symbolism and Death: Class-based Ritualised Performance in the Basukuma Burial Ceremonies 象征与死亡:巴祖玛人丧葬仪式中基于阶级的仪式化表演
Pub Date : 2022-01-31 DOI: 10.56279/ummaj.v9i2.5
Emmanuel Kilatu
Guided by a Marxist perspective on literature, and Muleka’s Performer-centrism, this paper highlights and discusses different manifestations or gestures that covertly suggest that there are elements of classes in some of the burial ceremonies, which are accompanied by performances among the Basukuma ethnic group of Tanzania. It reports the findings of a study whose data were collected using interviews held with respondents selected via snowball sampling. Note-taking served as a prominent data collection tool. Documentary review supplemented interviews, especially to collect data on the traditions of the Basukuma as one of the ethnic groups in Tanzania found predominantly in the Lake Victoria Zone. The study found that the burial ceremonies of the Basukuma are class conscious as manifested by their symbolic, incantatory, and invocatory performances. Indeed, when chiefs, singers, breech-birth and twins die, their burials require special burial ritual performances such as incantations, invocations and symbols that differentiate them from other rank and file individuals whose burial ceremonies lack fanfares characterising privileged individuals. Overall, these burial ceremonies graced by symbolic gestures among the Basukuma also help to unify the community since individuals define themselves in terms of who they are and what to expect from them and the community as a whole.
本文以马克思主义的文学视角和Muleka的表演者中心主义为指导,强调并讨论了不同的表现形式或手势,这些表现形式或手势暗含着一些埋葬仪式中的阶级元素,这些仪式伴随着坦桑尼亚巴苏库马族的表演。它报告了一项研究的结果,该研究的数据是通过滚雪球抽样选择的受访者进行访谈收集的。记笔记是一种重要的数据收集工具。文献审查补充了访谈,特别是收集关于巴苏库马人传统的数据,巴苏库马人是坦桑尼亚主要分布在维多利亚湖地区的一个民族。研究发现,巴苏库马人的埋葬仪式具有阶级意识,这体现在他们的象征性、符咒和祈祷表演上。事实上,当酋长、歌手、臀生和双胞胎去世时,他们的葬礼需要特殊的葬礼仪式表演,如咒语、祈祷和符号,将他们与其他普通个人区分开来,这些普通个人的葬礼仪式缺乏特权个人的特征。总的来说,这些埋葬仪式在巴苏库马人中有象征性的手势,也有助于团结社区,因为个人根据他们是谁以及对他们和整个社区的期望来定义自己。
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