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Muslim Women Sing: Hausa Popular Song

Muslim Women Sing: Hausa Popular Song

Mack, Beverly B.

Paperback

MusiciansBlack American StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0253025494
ISBN13: 9780253025494
Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
Published: Dec 1 2004
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In Muslim Women Sing, Beverly B. Mack shows Muslim women in northern Nigeria actively involved in creative activity. Although most of the songs and oral poetry are performed for female audiences only, some are performed for mixed groups, and typically men of the household are permitted to listen as women sing and recite songs and poems that reflect their contemporary social and cultural concerns. Themes such as women's roles in society, women and Islam, history, politics, AIDS prevention, child care, and hygiene form an integral part of their repertoire. Descriptive portraits of the singers interspersed between chapters reveal how they have learned to compose or play instruments and expand on sources of their creative energies.

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