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Readings in African Popular Culture » (1st Edition)
Authors: Karin Barber
ISBN-13: 9780253211408, ISBN-10: 0253211409
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Date Published: September 1997
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: Karin Barber
Karin Barber is Senior Lecturer at the Centre of West African Studies, the University of Birmingham. She has published extensively on Yorùbá oral literature, religion, and popular culture and worked and traveled with a Yorùbá theatre group in the early 1980s. Barber is author of Yorùbá Dùn ún So: A Beginners Course in Yorùbá (Part I), I Could Speak Until Tomorrow: Oríkì, Women and the Past in a Yorùbá Town, and Yorùbá Popular Theatre: Three Plays by the Oyin Adéjobí Company, and editor (with P. F. de Moraes Farias) of Discourse and Its Disguises: The Interpretation of African Oral Texts and Self-Assertion and Brokerage: Early Cultural Nationalism in West Africa.
Book Synopsis
A ground-breaking book in its examination of the voracity and range of African popular culture.
Table of Contents
| Notes on Contributors | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| The World in Creolization | 12 | |
| Popular Culture in Africa: Findings & Conjectures | 18 | |
| Eloquent Knowledge: Lesotho Migrants' Songs & the Anthropology of Experience | 29 | |
| Mande Oral Popular Culture Revisited by the Electronic Media | 40 | |
| 'Our Tradition is a very Modern Tradition': Popular Music & the Construction of Pan-Yoruba Identity | 48 | |
| Plantation Protest: The History of a Mozambican Song | 54 | |
| The Chimurenga Songs of the Zimbabwean War of Liberation | 63 | |
| South African Theatre: Ideology & Rebellion | 73 | |
| Popular Writing in Ghana: A Sociology & Rhetoric | 81 | |
| Popular Reactions to the Petro-Naira | 91 | |
| Painting in Zaire: From the Invention of the West to the Representation of Social Self | 99 | |
| Whose Music? The Songs of Remmy Ongala & the Orchestra Super Matimila | 110 | |
| Women & Modern African Popular Fiction | 118 | |
| Either One or the Other: Images of Women in Nigerian Television | 125 | |
| Women in Cultural Work: The Fate of the Kamiriithu People's Theatre in Kenya | 131 | |
| Kanga: Popular Cloths with Messages | 138 | |
| Politics & Urban Folklore in Nigeria | 142 | |
| The World of the Yoruba Taxi Driver: An Interpretative Approach to Vehicle Slogans | 146 | |
| The 'Thing' & its Doubles in Cameroonian Cartoons | 151 | |
| Sophiatown: The View from Afar | 164 | |
| Africa Civilized, Africa Uncivilized: Local Culture, World System & South African Music | 170 | |
| Index | 178 |
Subjects
Fiction Books & Literature
Literary Criticism African Literature
Fiction Books & Literature Literary Criticism Genres & Literary Forms
Nonfiction Social Sciences African Studies
Nonfiction Social Sciences General & Miscellaneous
Nonfiction All Nonfiction African Studies
Science & Nature Social Sciences African Studies
Science & Nature Social Sciences General & Miscellaneous
Social Sciences African Studies African Literature
Social Sciences General & Miscellaneous Popular Culture Studies
Literary Criticism African LiteratureFiction Books & Literature
Literary Criticism Genres & Literary FormsNonfiction
Social Sciences African StudiesNonfiction
Social Sciences General & MiscellaneousNonfiction
All Nonfiction African StudiesScience & Nature
Social Sciences African StudiesScience & Nature
Social Sciences General & MiscellaneousSocial Sciences
African Studies African LiteratureSocial Sciences
General & Miscellaneous Popular Culture Studies
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