Zaire '74: politicising the sound event

• Published in: Social dynamics Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 184 - 198
• Main Author: Levi, Ron
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon Routledge 04.05.2017; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: African Americans; Ambition; Anti-imperialism; Apartheid; Audiences; Black nationalism; Black Power movement; Boxing; Cold War; Colonialism; Disconnection; Hugh Masekela; Imperialism; Miriam Makeba; Muhammad Ali; Music; Music festivals; Political power; Production; Research methodology; Resistance; Rumble in the Jungle; Sound; Sound event; Transnationalism; Zaire

This article focuses on the multidimensional sound event in order to articulate certain transnational vectors of political power, anti-imperialism and black power. It proceeds from Louise Bethlehem's research methodology which recasts the anti-apartheid struggle as an apparatus of transnational...