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- Title
Kuduro, Digital Music and Lifestyle in Diaspora.
- Authors
Marcon, Frank
- Abstract
Kuduro is a style of dance and electronic music that emerged in Angola in the nineties, in a peculiar social context. Initially consumed and produced by young people from the periphery of the city of Luanda, it became a means of expression, entertainment, socialization and subsistence, through which they became autonomous and symbolically transformed their realities of scarcity. With access to communication technologies and movements of global dispersion of people and information, kuduro also spread to other countries and gained other meanings. Here, I analyze the characteristics of its context of origin, the conditions and implications of such dispersal, and disputes over the meanings of style.
- Subjects
LUANDA (Angola : Province); KUDURO music; ELECTRONIC music; AFRICAN diaspora; LIFESTYLES; INFORMATION &; communication technologies
- Publication
Matatu: Journal for African Culture & Society, 2022, Vol 53, Issue 1/2, p28
- ISSN
0932-9714
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/18757421-bja00002