Voicing African Voices

Author

Michael Stasik

Michael Stasik is presently a Research Assistant at the Chair of Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, and a PhD fellow at the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies. His current research examines the manifold lifeworlds concurring at a central bus station in Accra, Ghana.

Anthropology Art, Photography, Film and Music Music Social Sciences

DISCOnnections: Popular Music Audiences in Freetown, Sierra Leone

by Michael Stasik

This book offers an intriguing account of the complex and often contradictory relations between music and society in Freetown’s past and present. Blending anthropological…

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