Popular culture in Africa : the episteme of the everyday /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Newell, Stephanie, 1968- (Editor), Okome, Onookome (Editor), Förster, Till
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2014.
Series:Routledge research in cultural and media studies ; 58.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: popular culture in Africa: the episteme of the everyday by Stephanie Newell and Onookome Okome
  • Part I. Theoretical overviews
  • On creativity in African urban life: African cities as sites of creativity and emancipation by Till Förster
  • "Our tradition is a very modern tradition": from cultural tradition to popular culture in south western Nigeria by Will Rea
  • Part II. Gender & sexuality in African popular cultures
  • Sex and relationship education of the streets: advice on love, sex, and relationships in popular Swahili newspaper columns and pamphlets in Tanzania by Uta Reuster-Jahn
  • "The other woman's man is so delicious": performing Sudanese "girls' songs" by Eiman Abbas H. El-Nour
  • Bingo: francophone African women and the rise of the glossy magazine by Tsitsi Jaji
  • "Better Ghana [agenda]": Akosua's political cartoons and critical public debates in contemporary Ghana by Joseph Oduro-Frimpong
  • Desired state: black economic empowerment and the South African popular romance by Christopher Warnes
  • Part III. The place of humor
  • Standup comedy and the ethics of popular performance in Nigeria by Moradewun Adejunmobi
  • Literary insurgence in the Kenyan urban space: Mchongoano and the popular art scene in Nairobi by Miriam Musonye
  • Part IV: Popular discourses of the streets
  • Music for troubled times: Caiphus Semenya's Nomalanga and Zuluboy's Nomalanga Mntakwethu by Innocentia Jabulisile Mhlambi
  • Archives of the present in Parselelo Kantai's writing by Grace A. Musila
  • Heshimu Ukuta: local language radio and the performance of fan culture in Kenya by Peter Simatei
  • Football as social unconscious or the cultural logic of late imperialism in postcolonial Nigeria by James Tar Tsaaior
  • Part V: Coda
  • Lazymen's clinic: a musing on everyday life and Research by Ranka Primorac.