ISBN:
9781000588323
,
1000588327
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (499 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version: Musila, Grace A. Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture
DDC:
306.096
Keywords:
Popular culture.
;
Popular culture
Abstract:
This handbook brings together an international team of scholars from different disciplines to reflect on African popular cultural imaginaries. These imaginaries - in the sense of cultural productions, contexts, consumers, producers, platforms, and the material, affective and discursive resources they circulate - are influential in shaping African realities. Collectively, the chapters assembled in this handbook index the genres, methods, mediums, questions and encounters that preoccupy producers, consumers and scholars of African popular cultural forms across a range of geohistorical and temporal contexts. Drawing on forms such as newspaper columns, televised English Premier League football, speculative arts, romance fiction, comedy, cinema, music and digital genres, the contributors explore the possibilities and ambiguities unleashed by the production, circulation, consumption, remediation and critique of these forms. Among the questions explored across these essays are the freedoms and constraints of popular genres; the forms of self-making, pleasure and harm that these imaginaries enable; the negotiations of multiple moral regimes in everyday life; and, inevitably, the fecund terrain of contradictions definitive of many popular forms, which variously enable and undermine world-making. An authoritative scholarly resource on popular culture in Africa, this handbook is an essential read for students and scholars of African culture, society and media.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : Thirteen Ways of Reading African Popular Culture / Grace A Musila -- Ethiopian Imprints : Reading and Writing Ethiopia in 1930s South Africa / Corinne Sandwith -- Local Authors, Ephemeral Texts: Anglo-Scribes and Anglo-Literates in Early West African Newspapers / Stephanie Newell -- Varieties of Romance in Contemporary Popular Togolese Literature / Susanne Gerhman -- Against 'African Popular Literature' / Ranka Primorac -- Gendering the Popular : FEMRITE and African Popular Culture / Lynda Gichanda Spencer and Erik Falk / Scandals, Controversies and African Literary Prizes : Between Intertextuality and Plagiarism / Doseline Kiguru -- Talkin' TED, Blogging and Celebrity : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and the Popular Imagination / Steve Almquist -- Flash Fiction Ghana and Popular Culture : An Overview / Adwoa Opoku-Agyemang and Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang -- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle : Methods of Speculation in African Popular Culture / Nedine Moonsamy -- Literature in Africa's Great Lakes region : Between Resistance and Resilience / Maeline le Lay -- Funding Popular Culture in Tanzania : Crowdfunding, Self-Funding and the Live Performance as Fundraiser / Nikitta Dede Adjirakor -- Nigerian film audiences on the Internet : Influences, Preferences and Contentions / Añulika Agina -- 'Don't tell me you want to marry a white man!' : The Encounter with Euro-American Characters and Settings in African Commercial Cinema / Alessandro Jedlowski -- Popular Culture and the Women Fandom of English Premier League Football in Eldoret, Kenya / Solomon Waliaula -- Modelling Success : Women and Self-Making in Kenyan Digital Spaces / Dina Ligaga -- Recognising LGBTQ Faces beyond the Mauritian Nation-State / Ryan Poinsamy -- Coding the City : Mapping Eco-Systems and Zones of Opportunity in Kinshasa's Emerging Tech Scene / Katrien Pype -- Matters of Kwaito and why Kwaito Matters / Rangoato Hlasane and Bhekizizwe Peterson -- Meaning and Multiplicity : Complexity and Play in Tanzanian Hip-Hop / David Kerr -- Music Video, Popular Culture and the Question of the Political / Femi Eromosele -- The Police is Your Friend : Instagram Comedy and the Defamiliarization of the Postcolonial State / James Yeku -- "Di wone wey dey pain me pass...!" : Social Satire, Caricature and Mimicry in the Comic Act of AY / Rotimi Fasan -- #ObinimStickerChallenge : Visual Mediations of Suspicion in Religious Prosumer Parody Media in Contemporary Ghana / Joseph Oduro-Frimpong.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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