ISBN:
9780511584756
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 278 pages)
Series Statement:
African studies 87
DDC:
790/.01/35/096724
Keywords:
Geschichte 1880-1960
;
Kolonie
;
Brazzaville
Abstract:
In this book, Phyllis Martin, a well-known Africanist scholar, opens up a whole new field of African research: the leisure activities of urban Africans. Her comprehensive study, set in colonial Brazzaville and based on a wide variety of written sources and interviews, investigates recreational activities from football and fashion to music, dance and night life. In it, she brings out the ways in which these activities built social networks, humanised daily life and forged new identities, and explains how they ultimately helped to remake older traditions and values with new cultural forms.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511584756
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