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dc.contributor.authorMboya, Tom Michael-
dc.date.accessioned2026-08-06T06:01:36Z-
dc.date.available2026-08-06T06:01:36Z-
dc.date.issued2026-05-
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/D85558C47572EDE4EE9698F676A9FC6A/S0002020626102935a.pdf/listen-to-music-in-times-of-trouble-awillo-mike-kenyan-live-band-music-and-surviving-the-covid-19-pandemic.pdf-
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir.mu.ac.ke:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/10426-
dc.description.abstractThis narrative account of the working career of Kenyan popular “live band” musician Awillo Mike in 2020 explores the contribution that musicking makes to social resilience. Ethnographic and literary methods were used to construct a story of one artist’s struggles to survive and sustain his music career during the COVID-19 pandemic—a story that demonstrates how musicking is an everyday entertainment practice that fulfils deep psychological needs, persisting even in the most difficult circumstances by adapting. The account also contends that musicking directly and indirectly supports community resiliencen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen_US
dc.subjectResilienceen_US
dc.subjectCOVID-19 pandemicen_US
dc.subjectKenyan live band musicen_US
dc.subjectMusickingen_US
dc.subjectEntertainmenten_US
dc.title“Listen to Music in Times of Trouble”: Awillo Mike, Kenyan Live Band Music, and Surviving the COVID-19 Pandemicen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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