Youth, Pentecostalism, and Popular Music in Rwanda

Andrea Mariko Grant (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

318 Seiten

2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
9781009262675 (ISBN)

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Aimed at postgraduate students and researchers of anthropology, sociology and youth culture in Africa, and Rwanda in particular, this book offers insights into how urban young people in Rwanda navigate everyday life through popular music and new religious practices, finding ways to exert agency in a challenging political context.

Youth, Pentecostalism, and Popular Music in Rwanda offers fascinating insight into the lived experiences of young people in Rwanda through ethnographic analysis of the ambiguities and ambivalences that have accompanied the country's rapid post-genocide development. Andrea Mariko Grant considers how Pentecostalism and popular music offer urban young people ways to craft themselves and their futures; to imagine alternative ways to 'be' Rwandan and inhabit the city in the post-genocide era. Exploring the idiom of the heart – and efforts to transform it – this book offers a richly nuanced perspective of urban young people's everyday lives, their aspirations and disappointments, at a political moment of both great promise and great constraint. Rather than insist on a resistance-dominance binary, Grant foregrounds the possibilities of agency available to young people, their ability to make 'noise', even when it may lead to devastating consequences.

Andrea Mariko Grant is an anthropologist based at the University of Victoria. Her research focuses on art, popular culture, and media, and their intersections with identity and politics. She was previously a Research Fellow and Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.

Introduction: Transforming hearts; 1. Of hearts, visions, and Pentecostal subjects; 2. Who are the 'true' sons of God? Ubwenge and Pentecostal ethics; 3. Leaving a legacy: Pentecostal women and timework; 4. Rwanda Shima Imana: the politics of thanksgiving; 5. Pentecostal sounds and voice; 6. Singing from the heart: Music after 1994; 7. Singing life: Hip hop in the city; 8. The making of a 'superstar'; Conclusion: Mihigo and the politics of humanity; Works Cited; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.05.2025
Reihe/Serie	The International African Library
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	627 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781009262675 / 9781009262675
Zustand	Neuware