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Postcolonial archival fever and the musical archiving of African identity in selected paintings by Elias Jengo

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dc.creator Sanga, Imani
dc.date 2016-03-14T11:33:59Z
dc.date 2016-03-14T11:33:59Z
dc.date 2014-01-10
dc.date.accessioned 2018-03-27T08:43:36Z
dc.date.available 2018-03-27T08:43:36Z
dc.identifier Sanga, I., 2014. Postcolonial archival fever and the musical archiving of African identity in selected paintings by Elias Jengo. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 26(2), pp.140-154.
dc.identifier 1369-6815
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/918
dc.identifier 10.1080/13696815.2013.850403
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3230
dc.description This article examines the way music is figured in selected paintings by Tanzania painter Elias Jengo. It also identifies and discusses musical figures in these paintings that are used to archive African or Tanzanian identity. Through these paintings Jengo participates in constructing and enacting African/Tanzanian identity by invoking and depositing Tanzanian cultural heritage. The article argues that the archiving of Africanness in most postcolonial cultural productions is an expression of a fever that torments African postcolonial souls, a fever caused by a fear of the possibility of cultural loss. The article also discusses Jengo's influence on his students and other young artists in Tanzania as an act of archiving. It argues that the future of Jengo's work lies not only in his influence on these young artists but also in his own ability and readiness to take plastic forms, as well as his students' eagerness to archive him in plastic forms.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Taylor & Francis Group
dc.subject Elias Jengo
dc.subject African archives
dc.subject postcolonial fever
dc.subject plasticity
dc.subject painting in Tanzania
dc.subject music of Tanzania
dc.title Postcolonial archival fever and the musical archiving of African identity in selected paintings by Elias Jengo
dc.type Journal Article, Peer Reviewed


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