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The Tanzanian hip hop is broken, what could save him, young people who want to save him and his ideas were.
The hip-hop variant Bongo Flava stood for the democratic awakening of Tanzania. Meanwhile, dominated by a media group, the country and Bongo Flava has degenerated into dudelmusik.
In the post-socialist Tanzania, in the radio station leading media can be, the illiteracy rate is high, and music is still purchased on cassette, filled the local independent hip-hop to a few years ago the tasks that elsewhere took over the Internet:
He was a democratic instrument of say, a place of criticism, a medium in the spirit of the famous phrase of the American rapper Chuck D, Rap is the CNN of black people. Today, the Tanzanian hip-hop is barely recognizable yet.
From the managers of the Clouds Media Group, the most powerful media company in the country with the best connections in the government, he was demoted to toothless entertainment music.
The Group made ​​with the Tanzanianpop culture all the things you elsewhere accuses the major Internet companies: He pointed the cultural production from the mainstream and pushed everything else to the margins of attention.
And so is the Tanzanian hip-hop variant Bongo Flava, which once was the symbol of the political and social upheaval of the East African country, degenerated into dudelmusik.
Who in the summer of 2014 listening to the radio station Clouds FM, has the impression that he stands in a Tanzanian department store. Clouds FM only plays background music that sounds as if she should not spoil a consumer confidence when shopping.
Graphic Novel "Hip Hop Family Tree" Kurtis Blow just said "Bingo"
This development is not atypical: It is rather simply what happens when a creative economy is controlled only by very few companies. Whoever wants to can see a parallel here to the development of the Internet.
In the case of Tanzania created a dominant entertainment and media company almost single-handedly the framework for cultural production and then pointed it out to the mainstream.
Swahilisprachiger hip hop was the sound of post-socialism
The history of the Clouds Media Group is connected from the beginning almost symbiotically with the history of Bongo Flava. Clouds was created in the early eighties as an event series, in which Tanzania's youth was infected with the American hip-hop.
In a Clouds studio was in 1993 the first rap album to the Swahili texts included. Five years later, the radio had since been privatized, the transmitter Clouds FM was founded.
Had the state monopoly transmitter operatively especially popular education, western music nor disapproved the purposes of nation-building policy, now private channels made ​​popular music from around the world also known in the hinterland.
Swahilisprachiger Hip Hop - Bongo Flava soon called, where "Bongo" colloquially referred to Tanzania - was the sound of post-socialism and was almost be heard everywhere, on buses, hair salons and bars.
The older ones were of course horrified, the boys loved the music that came to be called "music to a new generation." Who promoted hip-hop, was considered good.
Who was, however, not. Clouds, now the most listened to by the youth radio station was, of course, good. It was about an opening to the world. Bongo Flava was a medium of renewal and freedom.
You could participate, without having studied guitar, rhetoric or journalism - and has even been heard. In the new millennium the Clouds, finally, the most important platform for Bongo Flava was.
Today Clouds is responsible for its decline. Clouds FM is part of a corporate conglomerate. The Clouds Media Group is an integrated entertainment and media company, he makes a - very impressive for East African conditions - dollar sales in the single digit millions.
Clouds and other operated by Clouds-managers companies operate event organization, music agencies and music management, booking, promotion, casting, training, production and media placement.
The Tanzanian hip hop is broken, what could save him, young people who want to save him and his ideas were.
The hip-hop variant Bongo Flava stood for the democratic awakening of Tanzania. Meanwhile, dominated by a media group, the country and Bongo Flava has degenerated into dudelmusik.
In the post-socialist Tanzania, in the radio station leading media can be, the illiteracy rate is high, and music is still purchased on cassette, filled the local independent hip-hop to a few years ago the tasks that elsewhere took over the Internet:
He was a democratic instrument of say, a place of criticism, a medium in the spirit of the famous phrase of the American rapper Chuck D, Rap is the CNN of black people. Today, the Tanzanian hip-hop is barely recognizable yet.
From the managers of the Clouds Media Group, the most powerful media company in the country with the best connections in the government, he was demoted to toothless entertainment music.
The Group made ​​with the Tanzanianpop culture all the things you elsewhere accuses the major Internet companies: He pointed the cultural production from the mainstream and pushed everything else to the margins of attention.
And so is the Tanzanian hip-hop variant Bongo Flava, which once was the symbol of the political and social upheaval of the East African country, degenerated into dudelmusik.
Who in the summer of 2014 listening to the radio station Clouds FM, has the impression that he stands in a Tanzanian department store. Clouds FM only plays background music that sounds as if she should not spoil a consumer confidence when shopping.
Graphic Novel "Hip Hop Family Tree" Kurtis Blow just said "Bingo"
This development is not atypical: It is rather simply what happens when a creative economy is controlled only by very few companies. Whoever wants to can see a parallel here to the development of the Internet.
In the case of Tanzania created a dominant entertainment and media company almost single-handedly the framework for cultural production and then pointed it out to the mainstream.
Swahilisprachiger hip hop was the sound of post-socialism
The history of the Clouds Media Group is connected from the beginning almost symbiotically with the history of Bongo Flava. Clouds was created in the early eighties as an event series, in which Tanzania's youth was infected with the American hip-hop.
In a Clouds studio was in 1993 the first rap album to the Swahili texts included. Five years later, the radio had since been privatized, the transmitter Clouds FM was founded.
Had the state monopoly transmitter operatively especially popular education, western music nor disapproved the purposes of nation-building policy, now private channels made ​​popular music from around the world also known in the hinterland.
Swahilisprachiger Hip Hop - Bongo Flava soon called, where "Bongo" colloquially referred to Tanzania - was the sound of post-socialism and was almost be heard everywhere, on buses, hair salons and bars.
The older ones were of course horrified, the boys loved the music that came to be called "music to a new generation." Who promoted hip-hop, was considered good.
Who was, however, not. Clouds, now the most listened to by the youth radio station was, of course, good. It was about an opening to the world. Bongo Flava was a medium of renewal and freedom.
You could participate, without having studied guitar, rhetoric or journalism - and has even been heard. In the new millennium the Clouds, finally, the most important platform for Bongo Flava was.
Today Clouds is responsible for its decline. Clouds FM is part of a corporate conglomerate. The Clouds Media Group is an integrated entertainment and media company, he makes a - very impressive for East African conditions - dollar sales in the single digit millions.
Clouds and other operated by Clouds-managers companies operate event organization, music agencies and music management, booking, promotion, casting, training, production and media placement.
