Popular Culture in Africa

Name: Popular Culture in Africa
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The Episteme of the Everyday

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Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

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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.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date NZ

November 12th, 2013

Series

Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

Contributors

Edited by Onookome Okome
Edited by Stephanie Newell

Pages

346

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Tertiary Education (US: College)

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1 Tables, black and white; 21 Halftones, black and white

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152x229x25

ISBN-13

9780415532921

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20932682

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