Issue 102: Spring 2010

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Buzz and Rumble: Global Pop Music and Utopian Impulse

By Jayna Brown on March 8, 2010
Abstract: This essay argues for the concept of a utopian impulse, a liberating power possible in music and dance. With a focus on African music, the essay argues against conventional Eurocentric world-music commodification and points instead to new music movements from Congo and from Angola that, engaging new forms of technology, do not require the practices of European curatorship.
Buraka Som Sistema and M.I.A., "Sounds of Kuduro"



"Liberia -- The Cannibals' War," a film by Mark Stucke, Journeyman Pictures, 1 August 1996, reference no. 229, www.journeyman.tv/?lid=9809.





Afropop Worldwide.

About.com: Alternative Music, 25 November 2008.


Kuduro videos from Luanda include:

Rei Helder, "Os Marteleiros." See also canalangola.net.



"Qui na Mata."



Costuletas's party hit "Tchiriri."
 


Dj Nays and Custuleta's "Mama Kudi."
 


MC Andrezinho, "Novo sucesso."



Les Princes du Kuduro, Tsunami Télécommande.




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