10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOUKOUS»
Discover the use of
soukous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
soukous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Africa: Your Passport to a New World of Music
But at a certain point in every soukous song, the drummer shifts to the final, high-
energy seben. The clave rhythm moves to the snare drum, the singers switch to a
rhythmic chanting section called the animation, and the guitars come forward in ...
2
Africa and the Americas: Culture, Politics and History
Probably the most influential African musical style, and definitely the most
popular African dance music of the twentieth century, soukous (often known in
Africa as “Congo music,” “Congolese rumba,” or “Lingala music”) is the electrified
“rumba” ...
Richard M. Juang, Noelle Morrissette, 2007
3
Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, ...
A good number of the protégés of Franco, one of Soukous's leading exponents,
and his contemporaries branched out to form their own bands in the late 1960s
and early 1970s. A common trend among them was the desire to speed up the ...
Carole Boyce Davies, 2008
4
Guitar Atlas: Guitar Styles from Around the World
But at a certain point in every soukous song, the drummer shirts to the final, high-
energy seben. The clave rhythm moves to the snare drum, the singers switch to a
rhythmic chanting section called the animation, and the guitars come forward in ...
I expected this passion pit to heat up even more than usual late last Memorial
Day when Loketo, the Congo's foremost ambassadors of soukous, hit the stage.
No dice. The skeptical Haitian audience refused to give it up for this rapid-fire ...
6
Performance and Politics in Tanzania: The Nation on Stage
As a form associated with overt sexuality and wahuni (''rough'' urban youth or
hoodlums), soukous occupied a suspect role in the nationalist gaze. By 2001, this
musical genre had triumphed over drama, ngoma, and acrobatics as a new ...
7
Rumba on the River: A History of the Popular Music of the ...
Soukous. 'I sat with Richard Dick in the foyer of Island Records before the release
of Sound D'Afrique II trying to find a title for the thing,' recalled Ben Mandelson, a
consulting producer on the project. 'We discussed bobina [dance] and other ...
Soukous features extremely intricate, high-pitched improvised electric guitar
playing and sometimes incorporates large brass and percussion sections. The
word soukous is derived from the French word secouer, meaning Òto shake.Ó It
was ...
Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates, 2010
9
My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been ...
This peculiar cross-continental journey was actually in keeping with the history of
soukous—and of all African music. which. in the words of the Cameroonian
saxophonist Manu Dibango. was essentially "a music of encounters." To begin
with.
10
The Garland Handbook of African Music
In a discussion of modern Afropop forms—mainly soukous, chimurenga,
mbaqanga— Banning Eyre examines the role of the electric guitar (1988).
Soukous, a popular form coming from Kinshasa but influential throughout Central
and Eastern ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SOUKOUS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
soukous is used in the context of the following news items.
Kanda Bongo Man's revolutionary sounds travel to SA
Referred to as a musical vanguard of his time, Kanda Bongo Man's take on soukous music revolutionised the genre – which has roots in Congo's rumba music ... «Mail & Guardian Online, Jul 15»
Canada Day, Congo Day & New Month/New Music Time
Highlights include music from soukous giants Franco and Tabu Ley Rochereau, the all-star lineups of the Four Stars and Kekele, one of the great female stars of ... «KMUW, Jun 15»
Mbongwana Star: breaking out of Kinshasa
Mixing punk attitude and spacey electronics with frantic rhythms and weaving soukous guitar lines, it messes with your preconceptions of what Congolese music ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
Ballou Canta: au-delà de la rumba congolaise et du soukous
C'est une voix de la rumba congolaise et du soukous... un pilier du Bal de l'Afrique enchantée, du groupe Black Bazar, et de Nzimbu, le dernier projet de Ray ... «RFI, May 15»
Mbongwana Star
The soul then comes from soukous, a Cuban inspired genre defined by soaring, gloriously upbeat guitar licks that has spread throughout the African continent. «The Quietus, May 15»
Bongo brings soukous to SA
The lights are dimmed and the stage abandoned. Our voices echo softly as I connect with Kanda Bongo Man, the king of soukous and kwassa kwassa. «Sowetan Live, Mar 15»
Konono No 1 review – thumb-piano wigouts and Minaj gyrations
In the DRC, it's the slick contemporary soukous of Fally Ipupa or Ferre Gola that rules, while Konono and the likes of their labelmates the Kasai Allstars appeal ... «The Guardian, Feb 15»
Fußball: Doping - Auch die B-Probe Soukous positiv
Der Dopingverdacht gegen den Fußballer Cebio Soukou vom Regionalligisten Rot-Weiss Essen ist durch die B-Probe bestätigt worden. Soukou beteuert, die ... «WDR Nachrichten, Jan 15»
Soukous Probe verdirbt RWE das Fest
Sportlich läuft es für Rot-Weiss Essen derzeit glänzend, das Team von Trainer Marc Fascher überwintert in der Regionalliga West punktgleich mit Alemannia ... «Kicker Online, Dec 14»
Zaiko Langa langa courts Lusaka
Because of their 'rebel' and 'hippie' attitude and their innovative approach to Soukous , they became a symbol of the new generation of post –independence ... «Times of Zambia, Sep 14»
