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University of California, Los Angeles., Ethnomusicology.

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When the Streets Speak: Investigating Music, Memory, and Identity in the Lives of Abidjanese Street Children.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	When the Streets Speak: Investigating Music, Memory, and Identity in the Lives of Abidjanese Street Children./
Author:	Taylor, Ty-Juana Tatae.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	208 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-10A(E).
Subject:	Music. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10124990
ISBN:	9781339830834

When the Streets Speak: Investigating Music, Memory, and Identity in the Lives of Abidjanese Street Children.
Taylor, Ty-Juana Tatae.

When the Streets Speak: Investigating Music, Memory, and Identity in the Lives of Abidjanese Street Children. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 208 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2016.

Africa currently has tens of millions of street children roaming its city streets, making it one of the leading regions in the world for children who have made the streets their home. Because of the exponential increase in street children over the past decade, the topic of street children has gained uncharted momentum in the world of academia. Until recently, academics have perpetuated the myth of street children as passive helpless beings. However, after fourteen months of observation and research with street children in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, I have found them to be far from passive. They are resilient and active participants in their culture, using their environment to forge an autonomous society of their own. Street children, usually ranging from six to eighteen years of age, traverse urban spaces creating a culture of their own constructed of social hierarchies, a unique language, music and dance, games, and occupations.

ISBN: 9781339830834Subjects--Topical Terms:

516178
Music.

When the Streets Speak: Investigating Music, Memory, and Identity in the Lives of Abidjanese Street Children.
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520 $a In this dissertation, I use music to construct an ethnography that acknowledges and focuses on the streetism (street culture) of children in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. This work focuses on the role of music in the lives of street children in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, which will hopefully alter the presumption of helplessness often assumed for children.
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