Hindi Film Songs in the Home: Gendered Experiences of Singing Popular Songs in Tamale, Northern Ghana-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Hindi Film Songs in the Home: Gendered Experiences of Singing Popular Songs in Tamale, Northern Ghana

Published:2022-07-01 Issue:2 Volume:66 Page:264-289
ISSN:0014-1836
Container-title:Ethnomusicology
language:en
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Author:

Young Katie¹

Affiliation:

1. Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick

Abstract

Abstract Beginning in the 1950s, Dagbamba and Hausa women in Tamale listened to Hindi film songs in their homes, via gramophone records and through state-run women's radio programs. Hindi film songs were soon integrated into existing domestic singing practices, including songs meant for domestic labor (tuma-yila) and childcare (biyola-yila). Through an analysis of oral history interviews as well as recorded performances of Hindi film songs sung by women, men, and youth in Tamale, I show how everyday performances of Hindi film songs reveal gendered and intergenerational experiences of domestic space, labor, and social life in Tamale.

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Subject

Music,Anthropology,Cultural Studies

Link

https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/etm/article-pdf/66/2/264/1564861/264young.pdf

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