![]() It shows that music hybridization in Muziki wa Injili takes place when musical sounds from one music culture travel through a number of cultural frontiers including temporal, spatial and genre-defined frontiers and enter into another music culture. This article examines the practice and politics of music hybridization in Muziki wa Injili (Gospel Music) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This process of commodification has created a bastardized version of hip hop culture, devoid of real ties to “authentic” hip hop culture, but a product of the creators of popular culture." ![]() In addition to calling out pop or mainstream rappers, hip hop artists in Tanzania have directed their anger at the media houses and their “commodification” of hip hop culture and transforming it into Bongo Flava, a pop music genre. In so doing, hip hop artists have called to the carpet Bongo Flava artists over questions of authenticity. By distancing themselves from Bongo Flava and calling out those that promote or represent Bongo Flava, many hip hop artists have attempted to draw a line in the proverbial sand, in an attempt to draw clear distinctions between hip hop and Bongo Flava. As Bongo Flava eclipsed hip hop in popularity, air play, and income generation, hip hop artists fought back. Tanzania is also the home of Bongo Flava, a genre of pop fusion that includes rap and R&B sung primarily in Swahili. Recognized by academics and hip hop aficionados alike, Tanzanian emcees have gained the respect of the international hip hop community for their skills, talent, and use of Swahili, a language known for its beautiful and complex poetry. This research focuses on that struggle in Tanzania, home to one of Africa’s most important hip hop communities. This struggle is for the survival of “authentic” hip hop, which is being threatened by the popularity of pop culture versions of hip hop and fusions between hip hop and other genres. As the rich twins want to close the family factory, the other sisters are determined to do whatever it takes to prevent its closure."Tanzania has become one of the latest of hip hop’s communities to struggle to maintain authenticity within hip hop culture against the trends toward commercialization. However, their paths cross in the middle of Manhattan streets and the outcome is a hilarious spiral of confusion in which problems are running rampant. The years go by, and although the twins look nothing alike physically, they live happily, unaware of the mistake made almost 40 years ago. To top it all off, the twins share the same name: Sadie and Rose. The clueless, elderly hospital nurse accidentally mixes up one twin from each pair and delivers them to their families. ![]() Two are daughters of an important and wealthy couple who own the largest factory in the area, while the two others are daughters of a humble and large family. Such was the case with Leonardo DiCaprio in Randall Wallace's The Man in the Iron Mask, in which he simultaneously performed King Louis and Philippe.īig Business combines multiple ingredients to be an incredible comedy: it stars the legendary Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin, and has the peculiarity that both of them play a pair of twins exchanged at birth in a small rural hospital. Sometimes, with a little help from the FX and make-up team, well-known actors managed to play a pair of twins for movie productions. ![]() Some twins seen on screen are actually two separate people who are actually twins in real life, as is the case of James and Oliver Phelps in the Harry Potter saga or the iconic twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, who starred in several films, including It Takes Two. If we add to all the above the fact that the actor has to perform and interact with a character that is not really there on set, but must be recreated mentally by the actor in a sort of dual task, acting as twins becomes a much more complicated and difficult challenge to achieve successfully. However, there is one task that requires an even higher skill level and that is when the same actor plays twins: characters that must be different enough so that each can be identified separately, but at the same time have certain similarities so that the relationship is obvious. This in itself is a daunting task that often requires many years of training. ![]() The nature of the acting profession is essentially to transform into other people. ![]()
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