ISBN:
9781800102095
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 405 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora
Series Statement:
92
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302.23083096
Keywords:
Mass media and youth / Africa
;
Youth / Africa / Social conditions
;
Popular culture / Africa
;
Arts and youth / Africa
;
Medien
;
Jugendkultur
;
Musik
;
Kunst
;
Afrika
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Afrika
;
Jugendkultur
;
Musik
;
Kunst
;
Medien
Abstract:
"The edited collection focuses on the links between young people and African popular culture. It explores popular culture produced and consumed by young people in contemporary Africa. And by "culture," we mean all kinds of texts or representations-visual, oral, written, performative, fictional, social, and virtual-created by African youth, mostly about their lives and their immediate societies, and for themselves, but also consumed by the larger public, and shared locally and globally. We proceed from the premise that cultural texts not only function as "social facts" as Karin Barber argues, but that they double as "commentaries upon, and interpretations of, social facts. They are part of social reality, but they also take up an attitude to social reality" (2007, 04). So, the work focuses specifically on what African youth produce as popular culture, under what conditions or contexts they produce such work, how they produce those texts, why they produce them, the aesthetic dimensions of these texts as cultural artifacts, and why these textual practices matter as social facts, as interpretive acts, and as cultural symbols of the general cultural activism of young people in a rapidly changing world, a world where the global cultural economy is the prime terrain for the relentless struggles over the meanings that come to shape political-economic and social systems"--
Note:
Introduction: Youth, Media, and Popular Arts Culture in Contemporary Africa / Paul Ugor, Illinois State University -- Hip-Hop, Civic Awareness and Anti-Establishment Politics in Senegal: The Rise of the Y'en a marre Movement / Bamba Ndiaye -- Rapping, Imagination and Urban Space in Dar es Salaam / David Kerr -- Entertainers & Breadwinners: Music in the Lives of Street Children in Abidjan, CoÌte d'Ivoire / Ty-Juana Taylor -- Young People, Music, and Socio-Political Change in Post-War Sierra Leone / Ibrahim Bangura -- The Politics of Pleasure in Nigerian Afrobeats / Paul Ugor -- The Regeneration of Play: Popular Culture as Infra-politics on Instagram / James Yeku -- "This is very embarrassing and insulting": Flash Fiction Ghana and Transgressive Writing / Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang -- Queering Ugandan Popular Culture(s): Luganda Pop and "Un-African" Sexualities / Austin Bryan -- Twitter, Youth Agency, and New Narratives of Power in #RhodesMustFall / Jendele Hungbo -- Resisting Political Oppression: Youth and Social Media in Zimbabwe / Godfrey Maringira & Simbarashe Gukurume -- Dressing en Style: Fashion and Fandom in Niger / Adeline Masquelier -- The Revolution Lost: Generational Change and Urban Youth Logics in Conakry's Dance Music / Adrienne Cohen -- Culture Players & Poly-Ticks: Botswana Youth, Popular Culture Practices & Resonances / Connie Rapoo -- 'Born Free': it's cute, but it's a lie': #FeesMustFall and Youth Deconstruction of South Africa's Liberation Narrative / Kristi Heather Kenyon, Juliana Coughlin and David Bosc -- Afterword: Young People and the Future of African Worlds / Nadine Dolby
DOI:
10.1017/9781800102095
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