Scholarly Pubs

Books

  • Moorman, Marissa. Powerful Frequencies: Radio, State Power, and the Cold War in Angola, 1933-2002 (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2019).

  • Moorman, Marissa. Intonations: a Social History of Music and Nation, Luanda, Angola, 1945-Recent Times (Ohio 2008).

Journal Articles

  • Moorman, Marissa. “Bonga’s Transatlantic Routes,” Revista TransVersos revista de história, no. 15 (Jan-Abr), 2019: 445-452

  • Moorman, Marissa and Delinda Collier. “Medium and media in Angola: expressive practices in context.” In De Miranda, Moorman, Oliveira, and Ramos, Atlântica: Contemporary Art in Angola and Its Diaspora, March 2019.

  • Moorman, Marissa, Comissão Científica, Mónica de Miranda, Ana Balona de Oliveira, and Afonso Ramos. Atlântica: Contemporary Art in Angola and Its Diaspora (Lisbon: Hangar productions, March 2019).

  • Moorman, Marissa, Pamila Gupta, Christopher J. Lee, and Sandhya Shukla, The Global South: History, Politics, Maps, Radical History Review, Volume 2018, Issue 131.

  • Moorman, Marissa. Introduction to Kiluanji Kia Henda’s “A City Called Mirage,” in The Global South: History, Politics, Maps, Radical History Review, Volume 2018, Issue 131: 127-133.

  • Moorman, Marissa. “Guerrilla Broadcasters and the Unnerved Colonial State in Angola, 1961-1974,” Journal of African History, 59(2): July 2018, 241-61.

  • Moorman, Marissa. “Luanda Humms and Buzzes: Urban Soundscapes, Club Music, and Dance, 1960-present,” forthcoming in Goethe Institut’s Johannes Hossfeld, Joyce Nyairo, and Florian Sievers, eds., Ten Cities: Berlin, Bristol, Cairo, Johannesburg, Kiev, Lagos, Lisbon, Luanda, Nairobi, Naples (Leipzig: Spector, forthcoming 2019).

  • Moorman, Marissa. “Radio Remediated: Sissako’s Life on Earth and Sembène’s Moolaadé,” Cinema Journal 57(1): 94-116, November 2017.

  • Moorman, Marissa. “Intimating Nationalism: Gender in the MPLA's maquis,” in Pantoja, Selma; Bergamo, Edvaldo A.; Silva, Ana Cláudia (org.). Angola e as angolanas: memória, sociedade e cultura. São Paulo: Intermeios, 2016.

  • Moorman, Marissa. “Along the Edges of Comparison,” in Jon Soske and Sean Jacobs, eds., Apartheid/Israel: the Politics of an Analogy (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2015). 

  • Moorman, Marissa. “City Building in Post-Conflict, Post-Socialist Luanda: Burying the past with phantasmagorias of the future,” with Anne Pitcher in Ntone Edjabe and Edgar Pieterse, eds., African Cities Reader III: Land, Property, & Value (Johannesburg: Chimurenga, December 2014 online, in print 2015).

  • Moorman, Marissa. “Anatomy of kuduro: articulating the Angolan body politic after the war,” African Studies Review, 57 (3), December 2014: 21-40.

  • Moorman, Marissa. “‘Sempre a subir’: música e nação no kuduro luandense e na diaspora,” (Always on the up and up: music and nation in Luandan kuduro and the diaspora), in Ivana Stolze Lima and Laura do Carmo, eds., História da Língua Nacional 2: diaspora Africana (Rio de Janeiro: Nau Editora, 2014).

  • Moorman, Marissa. “Airing the Politics of Nation: Radio in Angola Past and Present,” chapter 15 in Liz Gunner, Dumisani Moyo and Dina Ligaga, eds., Radio in Africa: Publics, Cultures, Communities (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, November 2011): 238-255.

  • Moorman, Marissa. “Dueling Bands and Good Girls: Gender and Music in Luanda’s musseques, 1961-74,” International Journal of African Historical Studies 37(2), 2004: 255-88.

  • Moorman, Marissa. “Putting on a pano and Dancing Like Our Grandparents: Dress and Nation in Late Colonial Luanda,” in Jean Allman, ed., Fashioning Africa: Power and the Politics of Dress (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004), 84-103.

  • Moorman, Marissa. “Of Westerns, Women and War: Resituating Angolan Cinema and the Nation,” Research in African Literature 32(3), Fall 2001: 103-22.

Co-Edited Volumes

  • Moorman, Marissa, Steven Fabian and Josh Sheppard, Breaking News, Radical History Review, issue 141, October 2021.