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A History of African Popular Culture
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Artikel-Nr:
9781107624474
Veröffentl:
2019
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
19.02.2019
Seiten:
212
Autor:
Karin Barber
Gewicht:
315 g
Format:
229x152x12 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Karin Barber is a Fellow of the British Academy and Professor Emerita of African Cultural Anthropology at the University of Birmingham. She was appointed CBE in 2012 for services to African studies. She is the author of a number of books and articles on African popular culture, including The Generation of Plays: Yoruba Popular Life in Theatre (2000) and Yoruba Print Culture and the First Yoruba Novel (2012).
A journey through the history of African popular culture from the seventeenth century to the present day.
Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Early popular culture: sources and silences; 3. Mines, migrant labour and township culture; 4. The city and the road; 5. The crowd, the state ... and songs; 6. The media: globalisation and deregulation from the 1990s till today; 7. Conceptualising change in African popular culture; Bibliography; Index.