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Conference paper Conference paper Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue
Title:Africans and the politics of popular culture
Editors:Falola, ToyinISNI
Agwuele, AugustineISNI
Year:2009
Pages:333
Language:English
Series:Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora (ISSN 1092-5228)
City of publisher:Rochester, NY
Publisher:University of Rochester Press
ISBN:1580463312; 9781580463317
Geographic terms:Africa
Cameroon
Kenya
Niger
Nigeria
Subjects:popular culture
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Yoruba
diasporas
conference papers (form)
2007
Abstract:A multidisciplinary collection of essays offering an epistemic window on Africa and its genealogies of popular acculturation and change, the fruit of the 'Popular Cultures in Africa' conference held at the University of Texas at Austin, 30 March to 1 April 2007. The Introduction is by Augustine Agwuele and Toyin Falola, followed by: From primitive to popular culture: why Kant never made it to Africa (Hetty ter Haar); Popular culture of Yoruba kinship practices (Nigeria) (Augustine Agwuele); Justice from below: cultural capital, local/global identity processes, and social change in eastern Niger (Antoinette Tidjani Alou); Popular culture and the resolution of boundary disputes in the Bamenda Grasslands of Cameroon (Emmanuel M. Mbah); Reverse mission or asylum Christianity? A Nigerian church in Europe (Great Britain) (Asonzeh Ukah); Performing pop tradition in Nigeria: from Yorùbá Bàtá to Bàtá Fújì (Debra L. Klein); Reclaiming the past or assimilationist rebellion? Transforming the self in contemporary American cinema (Black Americans and Africans in American films) (Celeste A. Fisher); Neither bold nor beautiful: investigating the impact of Western soap operas on Kenya (Maurice N. Amutabi); The lions in the jungle: representations of Africa and Africans in American cinema (Sarah Steinbock-Pratt); Sexuality in Caribbean performance: homoeroticism and the African body in Trinidad (Denise Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson); Family health awareness in popular Yorùbá arts (Arinpe Adejumo); Literary cultural nationalists as ambassadors across the diaspora (Nicholas M. Creary); and Popular resistance literature and the Nigerian Railway Corporation, 1955-60 (Tokunbo A. Ayoola). [ASC Leiden abstract]
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