A History of African Popular Culture

ISBN-13: 9781107016897 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 208 str.

Karin Barber

Opis

A journey through the history of African popular culture from the seventeenth century to the present day.

Recenzje

'Barber's exploration of popular culture producers and the reservoirs they tap of local resonance and trans-local flows is magisterial. Extracting fresh insight from studies across Africa, she upends existing theoretical models by showing how publics produce meaning through the act of consumption, and how producers continually consume to create anew.' Kelly Askew, University of Michigan

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Early popular culture: sources and silences; 3. Mines, migrant labour and township culture; 4. The city and the road; 5. The crowd, the state … and songs; 6. The media: globalisation and deregulation from the 1990s till today; 7. Conceptualising change in African popular culture; Bibliography; Index.