Tuning the kingdom : Kawuugulu musical performance, politics, and storytelling in Buganda /

Tuning the kingdom : Kawuugulu musical performance, politics, and storytelling in Buganda /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Kafumbe, Damascus, author.
Imprint:	Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2018. ©2018
Description:	xxviii, 151 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Eastman/Rochester studies in ethnomusicology, 2161-0290 Eastman/Rochester studies in ethnomusicology.
Subject:	Music -- Social aspects -- Uganda -- Buganda. Music and identity politics -- Uganda -- Buganda. Music and identity politics Music -- Social aspects Uganda -- Buganda
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11686843

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ISBN:	9781580469043 1580469043
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Tuning the Kingdom draws on oral and written accounts, archival research, and musical analysis to examine how the Kawuugulu Clan-Royal Musical Ensemble of the Kingdom of Buganda (arguably the kingdom's oldest and longest-surviving performance ensemble) has historically managed, structured, modeled, and legitimized power relations among the Baganda people of south-central Uganda. Damascus Kafumbe argues that the ensemble sustains a complex sociopolitical hierarchy, interweaving and maintaining a delicate balance between kin and clan ties and royal prerogatives through musical performance and storytelling that integrates human and nonhuman stories. He describes this phenomenon as "tuning the kingdom," and he compares it to the process of tensioning or stretching Kiganda drums, which are always moving in and out of tune. Even as Kawuugulu continues to adapt to the rapidly changing world around it, Tuning the Kingdom documents how Kawuugulu has historically articulated and embodied principles of the three inextricably related domains that serve as the backbone of Kiganda politics: kinship, clanship, and kingship."--Publisher's description.

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Orthography
Note on the Musical Examples
Preface: A Kingdom in and out of Tune
Introduction: Kawuugulu Musical Performance, Politics, and Storytelling
1. The Kawuugulu Clan-Royal Music and Dance Ensemble
2. Kawuugulu and Intra-Clan Politics
3. Kawuugulu and Royal Politics
4. Kawuugulu and Inter-Clan Politics
5. Conclusion: A Performative Constitution
Appendix A. Glossary
Appendix B. Author Interviews
Notes
Works Cited
Index