Popular Culture in Africa (eBook, PDF)

The Episteme of the Everyday
Redaktion: Newell, Stephanie; Okome, Onookome

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135068943
• Artikelnr.: 40021903

Autorenporträt

Stephanie Newell is Professor of English at the University of Sussex, UK. Onookome Okome is Professor of African Literature and Cinema in the Department of English at the University of Alberta, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Karin Barber 1. Introduction: Popular Culture in Africa: the
Episteme of the Everyday Stephanie Newell and Onookome Okome I. Theoretical
overviews 2. On Creativity in African Urban Life: African Cities as Sites
of Creativity and Emancipation Till Förster 3. Our Tradition is a Very
Modern Tradition: From Cultural Tradition to Popular Culture in South
Western Nigeria Will Rea II. Gender & Sexuality in African Popular Cultures
4. Sex and Relationship Education of the Streets: Advice on Love, Sex, and
Relationships in Popular Swahili Newspaper Columns and Pamphlets in
Tanzania Uta Reuster-Jahn 5. The Other Woman's Man is so Delicious:
Performing Sudanese "Girls' Songs" Eiman Abbas H. El-Nour 6. Bingo:
Francophone African Women and the Rise of the Glossy Magazine" Tsitsi Jaji
7. 'Better Ghana [Agenda]'?: Akosua's Political Cartoons and Critical
Public Debates in Contemporary Ghana Joseph Oduro-Frimpong 8. Desired
State: Black Economic Empowerment and the South African Popular Romance
Christopher Warnes III: The Place of Humor 9. Standup Comedy and the Ethics
of Popular Performance in Nigeria Moradewun Adejunmobi 10. Literary
Insurgence in the Kenyan Urban Space: Mchongoano and the Popular Art Scene
in Nairobi Miriam Musonye IV: Popular Discourses of the Streets 11. Music
for Troubled Times: Caiphus Semenya's Nomalanga and Zuluboy's Nomalanga
Mntakwethu Innocentia Jabulisile Mhlambi 12. Archives of the Present in
Parselelo Kantai's Writing Grace A. Musila 13. Heshimu Ukuta: Local
Language Radio and the Performance of Fan Culture in Kenya Peter Simatei
14. Football as Social Unconscious or the Cultural Logic of Late
Imperialism in Postcolonial Nigeria James Tar Tsaaior V. Coda 15.
Lazymen's Clinic: A Musing on Everyday Life and Research" Ranka Primorac