Author: Aylward Shorter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
African Culture, an Overview
Author: Aylward Shorter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
An Introduction to the Study of African Culture
Author: Eric O. Ayisi
Publisher: East African Publishers
ISBN: 9789966466174
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher: East African Publishers
ISBN: 9789966466174
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
A History of African Popular Culture
Author: Karin Barber
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107016894
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
A journey through the history of African popular culture from the seventeenth century to the present day.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107016894
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
A journey through the history of African popular culture from the seventeenth century to the present day.
Introduction to African Culture
Author: Alfâ Ibrâhîm Sow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
An introductionto African culture - its literatures, arts,and values.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
An introductionto African culture - its literatures, arts,and values.
Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation
Author: Roy Grinker
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9781557866851
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9781557866851
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
African History and Culture
Author: Richard Olaniyan
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780582643697
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
African History and Culture provides an ideal textbook for students taking courses in African history and culture in universities and other post-secondary institutions. The book is inter-disciplinary in approach, and covers the continent of Africa as a whole. Consisting of fourteen chapters written by specialists in their subjects, the book opens with an introductory overview of the themes that are covered in detail in the ensuing chapters, and concludes with a chapter on theatre in Africa by Professor Wole Soyinka of the University of Ife, Nigeria. -- Back cover.
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780582643697
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
African History and Culture provides an ideal textbook for students taking courses in African history and culture in universities and other post-secondary institutions. The book is inter-disciplinary in approach, and covers the continent of Africa as a whole. Consisting of fourteen chapters written by specialists in their subjects, the book opens with an introductory overview of the themes that are covered in detail in the ensuing chapters, and concludes with a chapter on theatre in Africa by Professor Wole Soyinka of the University of Ife, Nigeria. -- Back cover.
Popular Culture in Africa
Author: Stephanie Newell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135068941
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
This volume marks the 25th anniversary of Karin Barber’s ground-breaking article, "Popular Arts in Africa", which stimulated new debates about African popular culture and its defining categories. Focusing on performances, audiences, social contexts and texts, contributors ask how African popular cultures contribute to the formation of an episteme. With chapters on theater, Nollywood films, blogging, and music and sports discourses, as well as on popular art forms, urban and youth cultures, and gender and sexuality, the book highlights the dynamism and complexity of contemporary popular cultures in sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on the streets of Africa, especially city streets where different cultures and cultural personalities meet, the book asks how the category of "the people" is identified and interpreted by African culture-producers, politicians, religious leaders, and by "the people" themselves. The book offers a nuanced, strongly historicized perspective in which African popular cultures are regarded as vehicles through which we can document ordinary people’s vitality and responsiveness to political and social transformations.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135068941
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
This volume marks the 25th anniversary of Karin Barber’s ground-breaking article, "Popular Arts in Africa", which stimulated new debates about African popular culture and its defining categories. Focusing on performances, audiences, social contexts and texts, contributors ask how African popular cultures contribute to the formation of an episteme. With chapters on theater, Nollywood films, blogging, and music and sports discourses, as well as on popular art forms, urban and youth cultures, and gender and sexuality, the book highlights the dynamism and complexity of contemporary popular cultures in sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on the streets of Africa, especially city streets where different cultures and cultural personalities meet, the book asks how the category of "the people" is identified and interpreted by African culture-producers, politicians, religious leaders, and by "the people" themselves. The book offers a nuanced, strongly historicized perspective in which African popular cultures are regarded as vehicles through which we can document ordinary people’s vitality and responsiveness to political and social transformations.
African Cultural Values
Author: Kwame Gyekye
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Youth and Popular Culture in Africa
Author: Paul Ugor
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1648250246
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
"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"--
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1648250246
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
"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"--
African Society, Culture, and Politics
Author: Christopher C. Mojekwu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description