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Author : Karin Barber
Release : 2018-01-11
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 894/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A History of African Popular Culture by : Karin Barber
Download or read book A History of African Popular Culture written by Karin Barber. This book was released on 2018-01-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey through the history of African popular culture from the seventeenth century to the present day.
Author : Stephanie Newell
Release : 2013-11-12
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 941/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Popular Culture in Africa by : Stephanie Newell
Download or read book Popular Culture in Africa written by Stephanie Newell. This book was released on 2013-11-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume marks the 25th anniversary of Karin Barber’s ground-breaking article, "Popular Arts in Africa", which stimulated new debates about African popular culture and its defining categories. Focusing on performances, audiences, social contexts and texts, contributors ask how African popular cultures contribute to the formation of an episteme. With chapters on theater, Nollywood films, blogging, and music and sports discourses, as well as on popular art forms, urban and youth cultures, and gender and sexuality, the book highlights the dynamism and complexity of contemporary popular cultures in sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on the streets of Africa, especially city streets where different cultures and cultural personalities meet, the book asks how the category of "the people" is identified and interpreted by African culture-producers, politicians, religious leaders, and by "the people" themselves. The book offers a nuanced, strongly historicized perspective in which African popular cultures are regarded as vehicles through which we can document ordinary people’s vitality and responsiveness to political and social transformations.
Author : Toyin Falola
Release : 2009
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 312/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Africans and the Politics of Popular Culture by : Toyin Falola
Download or read book Africans and the Politics of Popular Culture written by Toyin Falola. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the instrumentalization of various aspects of popular culture in Africa.
Author : Paul Ugor
Release : 2021
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 246/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Youth and Popular Culture in Africa by : Paul Ugor
Download or read book Youth and Popular Culture in Africa written by Paul Ugor. This book was released on 2021. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The edited collection focuses on the links between young people and African popular culture. It explores popular culture produced and consumed by young people in contemporary Africa. And by "culture," we mean all kinds of texts or representations-visual, oral, written, performative, fictional, social, and virtual-created by African youth, mostly about their lives and their immediate societies, and for themselves, but also consumed by the larger public, and shared locally and globally. We proceed from the premise that cultural texts not only function as "social facts" as Karin Barber argues, but that they double as "commentaries upon, and interpretations of, social facts. They are part of social reality, but they also take up an attitude to social reality" (2007, 04). So, the work focuses specifically on what African youth produce as popular culture, under what conditions or contexts they produce such work, how they produce those texts, why they produce them, the aesthetic dimensions of these texts as cultural artifacts, and why these textual practices matter as social facts, as interpretive acts, and as cultural symbols of the general cultural activism of young people in a rapidly changing world, a world where the global cultural economy is the prime terrain for the relentless struggles over the meanings that come to shape political-economic and social systems"--
Author : Walid El Hamamsy
Release : 2013
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 726/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa by : Walid El Hamamsy
Download or read book Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa written by Walid El Hamamsy. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the current historical moment through works of popular culture produced in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa region, Turkey, and Iran. Essays consider gender, racial, political, and other issues in film, cartoons, talk shows, music, dance, blogs, graphic novels, fiction, fashion, and advertisements.
