Necessary noise : music, film, and charitable imperialism in the east of Congo /
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 t...
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New York City :
Oxford University Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction; 1. Art on the Frontline; On Sound and the Founding of Yole!Africa; On Image and the Emergence of Radical Aesthetics; Intersections; 2. Re-Membering Congo; Prologue; Act I Leopold; Act II Belgium; Act III Lumumba; Act IV €Mobutu; Act V€The Next Generation; Epilogue; 3. Peacemongers; Art vs. Aid in the East of Congo€Music and Humanitarianism.
- Art vs. Journalism in the East of Congo Image and Publicity; Art vs. Activism in the East of Congo Making and Marketing Peace; 4. Jazz Mamas; On Truth and Myth; The First Story Twaomba Amani; The Second Story Jazz Mama; The Moral; Epilogue.