Readings in African Popular Culture
"This is an extraordinarily rich collection full of informative detail and excellent interpretative analysis. There is not a single piece that fails to fascinate... " —Leeds African Studies Bulletin\ "... an impressive collection of inspiring and thought-provoking essays." —Media Development\ "This is a book that should find its way into many syllabuses and onto the bookshelves of Africanist scholars in many disciplines. Its publication marks a key turning point in scholarlship on the...
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A ground-breaking book in its examination of the voracity and range of African popular culture.
Notes on ContributorsIntroduction1The World in Creolization12Popular Culture in Africa: Findings & Conjectures18Eloquent Knowledge: Lesotho Migrants' Songs & the Anthropology of Experience29Mande Oral Popular Culture Revisited by the Electronic Media40'Our Tradition is a very Modern Tradition': Popular Music & the Construction of Pan-Yoruba Identity48Plantation Protest: The History of a Mozambican Song54The Chimurenga Songs of the Zimbabwean War of Liberation63South African Theatre: Ideology & Rebellion73Popular Writing in Ghana: A Sociology & Rhetoric81Popular Reactions to the Petro-Naira91Painting in Zaire: From the Invention of the West to the Representation of Social Self99Whose Music? The Songs of Remmy Ongala & the Orchestra Super Matimila110Women & Modern African Popular Fiction118Either One or the Other: Images of Women in Nigerian Television125Women in Cultural Work: The Fate of the Kamiriithu People's Theatre in Kenya131Kanga: Popular Cloths with Messages138Politics & Urban Folklore in Nigeria142The World of the Yoruba Taxi Driver: An Interpretative Approach to Vehicle Slogans146The 'Thing' & its Doubles in Cameroonian Cartoons151Sophiatown: The View from Afar164Africa Civilized, Africa Uncivilized: Local Culture, World System & South African Music170Index178
