Congo Love Song
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Congo Love Song
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Author : Ira Dworkin
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2017-04-27
Congo Love Song written by Ira Dworkin and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-27 with Social Science categories.
In his 1903 hit "Congo Love Song," James Weldon Johnson recounts a sweet if seemingly generic romance between two young Africans. While the song's title may appear consistent with that narrative, it also invokes the site of King Leopold II of Belgium's brutal colonial regime at a time when African Americans were playing a central role in a growing Congo reform movement. In an era when popular vaudeville music frequently trafficked in racist language and imagery, "Congo Love Song" emerges as one example of the many ways that African American activists, intellectuals, and artists called attention to colonialism in Africa. In this book, Ira Dworkin examines black Americans' long cultural and political engagement with the Congo and its people. Through studies of George Washington Williams, Booker T. Washington, Pauline Hopkins, Langston Hughes, Malcolm X, and other figures, he brings to light a long-standing relationship that challenges familiar presumptions about African American commitments to Africa. Dworkin offers compelling new ways to understand how African American involvement in the Congo has helped shape anticolonialism, black aesthetics, and modern black nationalism.
From Beyond The Rivers
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Author : Gila Garaway
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-01-30
From Beyond The Rivers written by Gila Garaway and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-30 with categories.
In 1996, the dictatorial rule of Mobutu came to an end and the Congo, DR Congo, was re-birthed. This is a true story of a life weaving its way through these decades, through the wars, insecurity , rape, murder and mayhem which continue to be the norm in the mineral rich eastern region.. It is a story of corruption, deception, faithfulness and kindness in the midst of an oppressive environment in present day Africa.
Congo Love
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Author : Lee David
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1920
Congo Love written by Lee David and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1920 with Popular music categories.
Congo Song
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Author : Stuart Cloete
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Congo Song written by Stuart Cloete and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with categories.
Congo Song
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Author : Stuart Cloete
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1952
Congo Song written by Stuart Cloete and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1952 with Africa categories.
American Popular Music
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Author : Timothy E. Scheurer
language : en
Publisher: Popular Press
Release Date : 1989
American Popular Music written by Timothy E. Scheurer and has been published by Popular Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Music categories.
Beginning with the emergence of commercial American music in the nineteenth century, Volume 1 includes essays on the major performers, composers, media, and movements that shaped our musical culture before rock and roll. Articles explore the theoretical dimensions of popular music studies; the music of the nineteenth century; and the role of black Americans in the evolution of popular music. Also included--the music of Tin Pan Alley, ragtime, swing, the blues, the influences of W. S. Gilbert and Rodgers and Hammerstein, and changes in lyric writing styles from the nineteenth century to the rock era.
Rumba On The River
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Author : Gary Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2020-05-05
Rumba On The River written by Gary Stewart and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-05 with Music categories.
There had always been music along the banks of the Congo River-lutes and drums, the myriad instruments handed down from ancestors. But when Joseph Kabasele and his African Jazz went chop for chop with O.K. Jazz and Bantous de la Capitale, music in Africa would never be the same. A sultry rumba washed in relentless waves across new nations springing up below the Sahara. The Western press would dub the sound soukous or rumba rock; most of Africa called in Congo music. Born in Kinshasa and Brazzaville at the end of World War II, Congon music matured as Africans fought to consolidate their hard-won independence. In addition to great musicians-Franco, Essous, Abeti, Tabu Ley, and youth bands like Zaiko Langa Langa-the cast of characters includes the conniving King Leopold II, the martyred Patrice Lumumba, corrupt dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, military strongman Denis Sassou Nguesso, heavyweight boxing champs George Foreman and Muhammad Ali, along with a Belgian baron and a clutch of enterprising Greek expatriates who pioneered the Congolese recording industry. Rumba on the River presents a snapshot of an era when the currents of tradition and modernization collided along the banks of the Congo. It is the story of twin capitals engulfed in political struggle and the vibrant new music that flowered amidst the ferment. For more information on the book, visit its other online home at rumbaontheriver.com-an impressive resource.
Congo Song
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Author : Stuart 1897- Cloete
language : en
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Release Date : 2021-09-09
Congo Song written by Stuart 1897- Cloete and has been published by Hassell Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-09 with categories.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Mission Song
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Author : John le Carré
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2018-09-27
The Mission Song written by John le Carré and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-27 with Fiction categories.
'Mesmerising' Sunday Times As an interpreter of African languages, Bruno Salvador is much in demand. He makes it a principle to remain neutral - no matter what he hears. But when he is summoned on a secret job for British Intelligence, he is told he will have to get his hands dirty. His mission is to help bring democracy to the Congo - democracy that will be delivered at the end of a gun barrel. The Mission Song is an excoriating depiction of a corrupt world where loyalty can be bought and war is simply an opportunity to settle old scores. 'Simply astonishing ... a formidably sophisticated work of fiction' Charles Cumming
A Higher Mission
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Author : Kimberly D. Hill
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2020-10-15
A Higher Mission written by Kimberly D. Hill and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-15 with History categories.
In this vital transnational study, Kimberly D. Hill critically analyzes the colonial history of central Africa through the perspective of two African American missionaries: Alonzo Edmiston and Althea Brown Edmiston. The pair met and fell in love while working as a part of the American Presbyterian Congo Mission—an operation which aimed to support the people of the Congo Free State suffering forced labor and brutal abuses under Belgian colonial governance. They discovered a unique kinship amid the country's growing human rights movement and used their familiarity with industrial education, popularized by Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute, as a way to promote Christianity and offer valuable services to local people. From 1902 through 1941, the Edmistons designed their mission projects to promote community building, to value local resources, and to incorporate the perspectives of the African participants. They focused on childcare, teaching, translation, construction, and farming—ministries that required constant communication with their Kuba neighbors. Hill concludes with an analysis of how the Edmistons' pedagogy influenced government-sponsored industrial schools in the Belgian Congo through the 1950s. A Higher Mission illuminates not only the work of African American missionaries—who are often overlooked and under-studied—but also the transnational implications of black education in the South. Significantly, Hill also addresses the role of black foreign missionaries in the early civil rights movement, an argument that suggests an underexamined connection between earlier nineteenth-century Pan-Africanisms and activism in the interwar era.