Falola / Agwuele Africans and the Politics of Popular Culture

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-58046-709-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 42, 347 Seiten

Reihe: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora

Explores the instrumentalization of various aspects of popular culture in Africa.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Falola, Toyin

Agwuele, Augustine

Weitere Mitwirkende

Alou, Antoinette Tidjani

Adejumo, Arinpe Gbekelolu

Ukah, Asonzeh

Agwuele, Augustine

Fisher, Celeste A.

Klein, Debra L.

Forbes-Erickson, Denise A.

Mbah, Emmanuel M.

ter Haar, Hetty

Amutabi, Maurice Nyamanga

Creary, Nicholas M.

Steinbock-Pratt, Sarah

Ayoola, Tokunbo A.

Falola, Toyin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Toyin Falola and Augustine Agwuele
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 Yorùbá Bàtá to Bàtá Fújì - 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 Nyamanga 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 A. Forbes-Erickson
Family Health Awareness in Popular Yorùbá Arts - Arinpe Gbekelolu 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
List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Falola Toyin:
TOYIN FALOLA is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin.Falola Toyin:
TOYIN FALOLA is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin.