CiNii 図書 - Readings in African popular culture

"This is an extraordinarily rich collection full of informative detail and excellent interpretative analysis. There is not a single piece that fails to fascinate..." -Leeds African Studies Bulletin "...an impressive collection of inspiring and thought-provoking essays." -Media Development "This is a book that should find its way into many syllabuses and onto the bookshelves of Africanist scholars in many disciplines. Its publication marks a key turning point in scholarlship on the cultures of contemporary Africa." -Africa Today This book surveys the popular culture of contemporary Africa, including popular literature, oral narrative and poetry, dance, drama, music, and visual art, with special emphasis on the verbal arts. The essays cover six main areas: views of the field; oral tradition revisited; social history, social criticism and interpretation; women in popular culture; "little genres of everyday life"; the local and the global.

Views of the Field Introduction by Karin Barber The World in Creolisation by Ulf Hannerz Popular Culture in Africa: Findings and Conjectures by Johannes Fabian Oral Tradition Revisited Lesotho Migrants' Songs and the Anthropology of Experience by David Coplan Mande Oral Popular Culture Revisited by the Electronic Media by Mamadou Diawara Popular Music and the Construction of Pan-Yoruba Identity by C. A. Waterman Social History, Social Criticism and Interpretation Plantation Protest: The History of Mozambican Song by Leroy Vail and Landeg White The Chimurenga Songs of the Zimbabwean War of Liberation by Alec J. D. Pongweni South African Theatre: Ideology and Rebellion by Andrew Horn Popular Writing in Ghana: A Sociology and Rhetoric by Richard Priebe Popular Reactions to the Petro-Naira by Karin Barber Painting in Zaire by Bogumil Jewsiewicki Whose Music? The Songs of Remmy Ongala and Orchestra Super Matimila by Werner Gruebner Women in Popular Culture Women and Modern African Popular Fiction by Jane Bryce Either One or the Other: Images of Women in Nigerian Television by Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi Women in Cultural Work The Fate of Kamiriithu People's Theatre in Kenya by Ngugi wa Thiong'o Kanga: Popular Cloths with Messages by Elisabeth Linnebuhr "Little Genres of Everyday Life" Politics and Urban Folklore in Nigeria by Ropo Sekoni The "Thing" and Its Doubles in Cameroonian Cartoons by Achille Mbembe The World of the Yoruba Taxi Driver: An Interpretive Approach to Vehicle Slogans by Olatunde Bayo Lawuyi The Local and the Global Sophiatown: The View from Afar by Ulf Hannerz Africa Civilized, Africa Uncivilized: Local Culture, World System and South African Music by Veit Erlmann

巻冊次: : paper : James Currey ISBN 9780852552360

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A ground-breaking book in its examination of the voracity and range of African popular culture. Despite the overwhelming reality of economic decline; despite unimaginable poverty; despite wars, malnutrition, disease and political instability, African cultural productivity grows apace: popular literatures, oral narrative andpoetry, dance, drama, music and visual art all thrive.' - Kwame Anthony Appiah, In My Father's House This collection of essays examines the way in which African popular culture has moved centre stage since the early 1980s. The emphasis is on the verbal rather than the visual, and topics covered include the oral tradition, and women in popular culture. KARIN BARBER is Professor of African Cultural Anthropology at the University of Birmingham Published in association with the International African Institute North America: Indiana University Press

views of the field
oral tradition revisited
socialhistory, social criticism and interpretation
women in popular culture
little genres of everyday life
the local and the global.

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