ISBN:
9783319750798
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XIII, 100 p. 2 illus, online resource)
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
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DDC:
306.096
Keywords:
Culture Study and teaching
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Cultural and Media Studies
;
Ethnology Africa
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African literature
;
Africa Politics and government
;
African languages
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Communication.
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Culture Study and teaching
;
Ethnology Africa
;
African literature
;
Africa Politics and government
;
African languages
Abstract:
1. African Art and the Crisis of Poverty and Social Divisions in a Global Era -- 2. Criticism of African Art and Literature -- 3. Ilorin Traditional Oral Art in the Context of Bourgeois Aesthetics -- 4. A Pact between the Writer and the Oral Performer -- 5. Conclusion.
Abstract:
This book discusses globalization trends and influences on traditional African oral literary performance and the direction that Ilorin oral art is forced to take by the changes of the twenty-first century electronic age. It seeks a new definition of contemporary African bourgeois in terms of their global reach, imitation of foreign forms, and collaboration with the owners of primary agencies. Additionally, it makes a case that African global lords or new bourgeoisie who are largely products of the new global capital and multinational corporations’ socio-political and cultural influences fashion their tastes after Western cultures as portrayed in the digital realm. Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah is Vice-Chancellor, Chief Executive Officer, and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Kwara State University, Nigeria. He is co-author of Introduction to African Oral Literature and Performance (2005), and author of Africanity, Islamicity and Performativity: Identity in the House of Ilorin (2009), African Discourse in Islam, Oral Traditions, and Performance (2010), and Cultural Globalization And Plurality: Africa and the New World (2011).
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-75079-8
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