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| Title: | Measuring time: Karin Barber and the study of everyday Africa |
| Editors: | Okome, Onookome Newell, Stephanie |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Periodical: | Research in African Literatures (ISSN 0034-5210) |
| Volume: | 43 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Pages: | 195 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Africa Kenya Nigeria South Africa Tanzania Zambia |
| Subjects: | popular culture literature cinema Nollywood popular music |
| About person: | Karin Barber (1949-) |
| External link: | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/research_in_african_literatures/toc/ral.43.4.html |
| Abstract: | Karin Barber's influential essay 'Popular arts in Africa', published in 1987, set out to open and solidify the study of popular arts in Africa. Implicitly testifying that the definitional ground has been adequately covered by Barber's essay, the contributors to this volume examine the cultural changes and social transformations that matter to 'popular' Africa, especially those that have to do with the transition from old media to new forms. They show how new technologies have helped to recast and rephrase narrative styles, themes and audiences. They also demonstrate how media interacts with new modes of artistic production and consumption in contemporary Africa. Their contributions offer case studies and analyses of popular literature, urban music and cinema and video, including Nollywood (Nigeria), Bongowood (Tanzania) and cellphilmmaking: making cinema with mobile phones. The volume includes a foreword by Karin Barber and an introduction by Onookome Okome and Stephanie Newell. Contributors: Dina Ligaga, Heike Becker, Hervé Tchumkam, Ranka Primorac, Jane Bryce, Graham Furniss and Abdalla Uba Adamu, Lizelle Bisschoff and Ann Overbergh, Debra Klein, James Ogude and Onookome Okome. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
