Name: The Noise Silence Makes: Secularity and Ghana's Drum Wars (Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People) (en Inglés)
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Author: Mariam Goshadze
ISBN: 9781478031413

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The Noise Silence Makes: Secularity and Ghana's Drum Wars (Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People) (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

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Duke University Press

Autor

Mariam Goshadze

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

216

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781478031413

The Noise Silence Makes: Secularity and Ghana's Drum Wars (Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People) (en Inglés)

Mariam Goshadze (Autor) · Duke University Press · Tapa Blanda

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For generations, the Ga community in Accra, Ghana, has enforced an annual citywide ban on noisemaking during an important religious festival. In the 1990s and 2000s, this "ban on drumming" became a point of conflict between the Ga people and the newly popular Pentecostal/Charismatic churches, which refused to subdue their loud worship during the ban. Although the Ghanaian state constitutionally and institutionally grants superior status to Christianity and Islam, it ruled in favor of the Ga community, which emphasized its "cultural" rather than religious rights. In The Noise Silence Makes, Mariam Goshadze traces the history of noise regulation in Accra, showing how the Ga people have adopted colonial mechanisms of noise control to counter Pentecostal/Charismatic dominance over Accra's soundscape. Goshadze shows how the drumming ban represents a reversal of the top-down model of noise regulation and illuminates the reality of Ghanaian secularity, in which the state unofficially collaborates with indigenous religious authorities to control sound. In so doing, Goshadze counters the tendency to push African "traditional religions" to the margins, demonstrating that they are instrumental players in contemporary African urbanity.