Overview
- Unravels African myriad cultural backgrounds
- Catalogues Africa’s pre-and post-independence realities
- Exposes digital technology influence on African music
Part of the book series: Pop Music, Culture and Identity (PMCI)
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Indigenous African Popular Music, Democracy, Politics and Social Crusade
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Indigenous African Popular Music and Environmental Health Communication
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Indigenous African Popular Music and Gender Empowerment
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About this book
This volume examines how African indigenous popular music is deployed in democracy, politics and for social crusades by African artists. Exploring the role of indigenous African popular music in environmental health communication and gender empowerment, it subsequently focuses on how the music portrays the African future, its use by African youths, and how it is affected by advanced broadcast technologies and the digital media. Indigenous African popular music has long been under-appreciated in communication scholarship. However, understanding the nature and philosophies of indigenous African popular music reveals an untapped diversity which can only be unraveled by the knowledge of myriad cultural backgrounds from which its genres originate. With a particular focus on scholarship from Nigeria, Zimbabwe and South Africa, this volume explores how, during the colonial period and post-independence dispensation, indigenous African music genres and their artists were mainstreamed in order to tackle emerging issues, to sensitise Africans about the affairs of their respective nations and to warn African leaders who have failed and are failing African citizenry about the plight of the people.
At the same time, indigenous African popular music genres have served as a beacon to the teeming African youths to express their dreams, frustrations about their environments and to represent themselves. This volume explores how, through the advent of new media technologies, indigenous African popular musicians have been working relentlessly for indigenous production, becoming champions of good governance, marginalised population, and repositories of indigenous cultural traditions and cosmologies.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Abiodun Salawu is Professor of Journalism, Communication and Media Studies, and Director of Indigenous Language Media in Africa, at the North-West University, South Africa. His major areas of research include indigenous language media, development communication, critical studies and new media.
Israel A. Fadipe is postdoctoral fellow in Indigenous Language Media in Africa at the Faculty of Humanities, North-West University, South Africa. He specialises in communication, cultural and gender studies, and has published articles and chapters in both local and international journals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Indigenous African Popular Music, Volume 2
Book Subtitle: Social Crusades and the Future
Editors: Abiodun Salawu, Israel A. Fadipe
Series Title: Pop Music, Culture and Identity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98705-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98704-6Published: 15 June 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98707-7Published: 16 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-98705-3Published: 14 June 2022
Series ISSN: 2634-6613
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6621
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 465
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Music, African Culture, African Languages, Intercultural Communication, Diaspora, African History