Indigenous African Popular Music, Volume 1

Chapter 1: Introduction: Indigenous African Popular Music.- SECTION A: THE NATURE, PHILOSOPHIES AND GENRES OF INDIGENOUS AFRICAN POPULAR MUSIC.- Chapter 2: Indigenous and modern Zimbabwean music: Reflections from Thomas Mapfumo's Chimurenga music genre.- Chapter 3: Rhythmic signifying in popular Venda music.- Chapter 4: Baansi ni Yila: A critical history of the music industry in Northern Ghana.- Chapter 5: Indigenous and Indigenised Yoruba Popular Music.- Chapter 6: Social Cognition and Advertisement in Yusuf Olatunji's Music.- Chapter 7: Exploring the value systems embedded in indigenous Yorùbá music genres and Yorùbá nursery rhymes.- Chapter 8: Cultural Frames: Socio-Cultural Metaphors in Owerri-Igbo Bongo Music.- Chapter 9: Thematic Deconstructions of Urhobo/Isoko Musicology and Brand Identity Negotiation, Normalization & Contradictions: Discourse Narrative.- Chapter 10: Dung Chollom and Berom Ethnic Popular Music.- SECTION B: INDIGENOUS AFRICAN POPULAR MUSIC ARTISTES AS PROPHETS AND PHILOSOPHERS.- Chapter 11: Corpus of Prophecy, Philosophy and Crusading in Ayinla Omowura's Music.- Chapter 12: Forewarned is forearmed: Exploring the apocalyptic voice of popular music in the post-colonial Zimbabwe.- Chapter 13: Reeling Nostalgia: 'Aremote' and the enduring Sakara music in Nigeria.- Chapter 14: Celebration as Choice in Nigerian Indigenous and Modern Music: A Critical Analysis of Osondi Owendi by Osita Osadebe and Chinedu Okoli (Flavour).- Chapter 15: Yoruba Socio-Cultural Norms and Values in Selected Songs of Bukola Elemide (Asa).- Chapter 16: Rethinking Values and Principles: An Examination of Osita Osadebe Songs in Igbo Cultural Value Preservation.- SECTION C: INDIGENOUS AFRICAN POPULAR MUSIC AND THE WORLD.- Chapter 17: Valodia: A Transatlantic Praise Song.- Chapter 18: The adaptation of Zimbabwean mbira dzavadzimu music, from traditional to modern popular band format; the case of Thomas Mapfumo.- Chapter 19: Macheso's Sungura and Socialidentity narratives in Postcolonial Zimbabwe.- Chapter 20: "One Beat, One Pound" - Kasumu Isola Sanni: The Sákárà Master Drummer.- Chapter 21: When Culture and Tradition Aren't Archaic: The Song Semantics of Zimbabwean Mbira's International Appeal.