The Noise Silence Makes
Secularity and Ghana's Drum Wars
| dc.contributor.author | Goshadze, Mariam | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-06-02T10:04:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-06-02T10:04:33Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/103295 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Mariam Goshadze traces the history of noise regulation in Accra, Ghana, showing how the 1990s and 2000s conflicts between the Ga people and Pentecostal/Charismatic churches during the annual city-wide ban on drumming illuminates the innerworkings of Ghanaian secularity and the importance of “traditional religions” to African urbanity. | en_US |
| dc.language | English | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1H Africa | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1H Africa::1HF Sub-Saharan Africa::1HFD West Africa::1HFDH Ghana | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | secularism;PentecostalCharismatic Christianity;religious sound;traditional religions;Africa;culturalization;H?m?w?;Drum Wars;Accra;Ga community;African urbanity;Gold Coast;nuisance ordinances;British Gold Coast;ocularcentrism;noise pollution;Ghana;Daily Graphic;Sankofa;sonic theology;loud worship;ritual silence;right to religion;religio-culturalization;sonic tensions;Ga Traditional Council;Accra Metropolitan Assembly;Nuisance Control Task Force;Environmental Protection Agency;Homofest Ghana;Ministry of Tourism, Arts, and Culture Ghana;noise regulation;Pentecostal Charismatic Christianity | en_US |
| dc.title | The Noise Silence Makes | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | Secularity and Ghana's Drum Wars | en_US |
| dc.type | book | |
| oapen.identifier.doi | 10.1215/9781478060406 | en_US |
| oapen.relation.isPublishedBy | f0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b | en_US |
| oapen.relation.isFundedBy | d73c3d08-9f7b-4986-9bad-8fa42982ca37 | en_US |
| oapen.relation.isbn | 9781478028192 | en_US |
| oapen.relation.isbn | 9781478031413 | en_US |
| oapen.relation.isbn | 9781478060406 | en_US |
| oapen.pages | 217 | en_US |
| oapen.place.publication | Durham | en_US |
