Talk:Music of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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[edit]This article is currently the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 20 August 2024 and 4 December 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): ChrissMu (article contribs). Peer reviewers: BuMafluff8, 95reasons.
— Assignment last updated by 95reasons (talk) 19:03, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
- Great to do this, but I have to say that a "music of resistance" thesis does not generally describe the main stream of the music of the DRC.
- One can point to a few examples of that, and find a strain of political resistance in Congolese music - the musicians who went to Belgium for independence talks, Indépendance Cha Cha, Franklin Boukaka (though he was from and died in the "other Congo"), and so forth. But I think the central story of Congolese music is that from about 1965 to about 1995, most DRC musicians ignored their country's intractible and terrible politics (and many of the DRC's best musicians left that country for West Africa, East Africa, and Paris) or they even supported the Mobuto regime, and they decided instead to focus their attention on making the world's best popular music that fueled dance floors on every continent.
- Sullidav (talk) 02:54, 11 September 2024 (UTC)
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