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Bongo Flava

Uta Reuster-Jahn

Uta Reuster-Jahn

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume XII : Genres: Sub-Saharan Africa

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...Bongo flava is a heterogeneous music that developed in Tanzania after the end of the country’s socialist era in 1985. This development was facilitated by political change toward multiparty democracy, along with economic liberalization...

Zenji Flava

Irene Brunotti

Irene Brunotti

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume XII : Genres: Sub-Saharan Africa

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...Zenji flava, also referred to as zenji fleva, from the English word ‘flavor,’ is a musical genre that emerged in the 1980s on the Isles of Zanzibar (United Republic of Tanzania). Within the upsurge of bongo flava as popular Tanzanian music...