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White, B. W. (2015). Listening Together, Thinking out Loud: Popular Music and Political Consciousness in Congo-Zaire. MUSICultures, 41(2). Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/MC/article/view/22911
Abstract
This text argues that by watching people who listen to music, we can understand the unfolding of political events in the popular imagination in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Because listening to music in this context is very often a social activity, music fans make associations between their individual experiences and the political history of their country, at times articulating a new political consciousness as something emergent. After presenting three examples of this political “prise de conscience” during the Mobutu regime—the beginning of opposition, the period of structural adjustment and the fall of the regime—I analyze the relationship between political consciousness and popular music via a discussion of interpersonal listening: listening together, thinking out loud.- The author retains copyright over the work.
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