ISBN:
9781580467094
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (viii, 333 pages)
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DDC:
306.2096
Keywords:
Politik
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Popular culture / Political aspects / Africa / Congresses
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Volkskultur
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Politik
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Kultur
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Afrika
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Africa / Civilization / Congresses
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Afrika
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Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Afrika
;
Politik
;
Kultur
;
Afrika
;
Volkskultur
Abstract:
This anthology provides insightful data on and discussions of a wide array of popular cultural manifestations and theoretical perspectives, covering such issues as kinship, religion, conflict resolution, music, cinema, drama, and literary texts. The issues cohere around the understanding that culture is situational and political. Going beyond merely challenging popular stereotypes and representations of Africans and African related practices in various outlets, the book reveals how popular cultural practices are instruments that have been manipulated for personal and collective survival. The book is distinctive in its codification and explication of aspects of popular practices that are based on data from countries in Africa, Europe, and the Americas that showcase cultural negotiations either with reference to how notions, values, norms, and images of Africans have been packaged and exploited over the years or how popular cultures are used as tools of resistance and agitation by the various focal groups that are discussed. The topics are presented and illustrated in ways easily accessible to readers of all backgrounds. Toyin Falola is the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin as well as a University Distinguished Teaching Professor. Augustine Agwuele is an assistant professor of linguistics in the Department of Anthropology, Texas State University, San Marcos. Contributors: Arinpe Adejumo, Augustine Agwuele, Antoinette Tidjani Alou, Maurice N. Amutabi, Tokunbo A. Ayoola, Nicholas M. Creary, Toyin Falola, Celeste A. Fisher, Denise Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson, Hetty ter Haar, Debra L. Klein, Emmanuel M. Mbah, Sarah Steinbock-Pratt, and Asonzeh Ukah
Description / Table of Contents:
From primitive to popular culture : why Kant never made it to Africa / Hetty ter Haar -- Popular culture of Yoruba kinship practices / Augustine Agwuele -- Justice from below : cultural capital, local-global identity processes, and social change in Eastern Niger / Antoinette Tidjani Alou -- Popular culture and the resolution of boundary disputes in the Bamenda Grasslands of Cameroon / Emmanuel M. Mbah -- Reverse mission or asylum Christianity? : a Nigerian church in Europe / Asonzeh Ukah -- Performing pop tradition in Nigeria : from Yoruba Bata to Bata Fuji / Debra L. Klein -- Reclaiming the past or assimilationist rebellion? : transforming the self in contemporary American cinema / Celeste A. Fisher -- Neither bold nor beautiful : investigating the impact of Western soap operas on Kenya / Maurice N. Amutabi -- The lions in the jungle : representations of Africa and Africans in American cinema / Sarah Steinbock-Pratt -- Sexuality in Caribbean performance : homoeroticism and the African body in Trinidad / Denise Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson -- Family health awareness in popular Yoruba arts / Arinpe Adejumo -- Literary cultural nationalists as ambassadors across the diaspora / Nicholas M. Creary -- Popular resistance literature and the Nigerian Railway Corporation, 1955-60 / Tokunbo A. Ayoola
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