Ignatowski, Clare A. <br/><br/>
Journey of song  public life and morality in Cameroon /  [electronic resource] : 
Clare A. Ignatowski. 
 - Bloomington :  Indiana University Press,  c2006. 
 - xi, 223 p., [20] p. of plates :  ill., maps. 
 - African expressive cultures .
 - African expressive cultures. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-220) and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction -- Maïtené's modern life : song as negotiation of public morality -- "Better than family, better than girls" : the Tupuri Gurna Society -- Defying the modern : play of identities in Gurna dance exhortation ([b,hooked][o]'ge f[o]g[e]) -- "Telephone of the dance" : circulation of Gurna song discourse -- "Rise up, gather like storm clouds" : poetics of Gurna song (si[ng] gurna) -- "I become your boy" : power, legitimacy and magic in song composition -- Staging conflict through insult : competing systems of justice -- Multipartyism and nostalgia for the unified past : discourses of democracy in Gurna politics -- Conclusion. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Tupuri (African people)--Social life and customs.--Cameroon
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Cameroon--Social conditions--1960-
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HN819.A8  / I385 2006eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.896/361