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Title:Popular culture in Africa: the episteme of the everyday
Editors:Newell, StephanieISNI
Okome, OnookomeISNI
Year:2013
Issue:58
Pages:323
Language:English
Series:Routledge research in cultural and media studies
City of publisher:New York
Publisher:Routledge
ISBN:9780415532921; 9780203587966
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:popular culture
gender
sexuality
mass media
Abstract:This book with chapters on theater, Nollywood films, blogging, music and sports discourses, popular art forms, urban and youth cultures, and gender and sexuality, highlights the dynamism and complexity of contemporary popular cultures in sub-Saharan Africa. Contributions: Foreword by Karin Barber; Introduction: Popular culture in Africa: the episteme of the everyday (Stephanie Newell and Onookome Okome); On creativity in African urban life: African cities as sites of creativity and emancipation (Till Förster); 'Our tradition is a very modern tradition': from cultural tradition to popular culture in South Western Nigeria (Will Rea); 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); The other woman's man is so delicious: performing Sudanese 'girls' songs' (Eiman Abbas H. El-Nour ); 'Bingo': francophone African women and the rise of the glossy magazine (Tsitsi Jaji); 'Better Ghana [agenda]'? Akosua's political cartoons and critical public debates in contemporary Ghana (Joseph Oduro-Frimpong); Desired state: black economic empowerment and the South African popular romance (Christopher Warnes); Standup comedy and the ethics of popular performance in Nigeria (Moradewun Adejunmobi); Literary insurgence in the Kenyan urban space: 'Mchongoano' and the popular art scene in Nairobi (Miriam Maranga-Musonye); Music for troubled times: Caiphus Semenya's 'Nomalanga' and Zuluboy's 'Nomalanga Mntakwethu' (Innocentia Jabulisile Mhlambi); Archives of the present in Parselelo Kantai's writing (Grace A. Musila); 'Heshimu ukuta': local-language radio and the performance of fan culture in Kenya (Peter Tirop Simatei); Football as social unconscious or the cultural logic of late imperialism in postcolonial Nigeria (James Tar Tsaaior); Lazymen's clinic: a musing on everyday life and research (Ranka Primorac). [ASC Leiden abstract]
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