Africans and the politics of popular culture / edited by Toyin Falola and Augustine Agwuele.
Contributor(s): Falola, Toyin | Agwuele, Augustine
Material type: TextSeries: Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora: Publisher: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2009Description: viii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781580463317; 1580463312Subject(s): Popular culture -- Political aspects -- Africa -- Congresses | Africa -- Civilization -- CongressesDDC classification: 306.2096 LOC classification: DT14 | .A3746 2009Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Book | John Bulow Campbell Library | 1 West | DT14 .A3746 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0182903505903 |
Browsing John Bulow Campbell Library shelves, Shelving location: 1 West Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
No cover image available | No cover image available | No cover image available | ||||||
DT5 .H25 Africa today / | DT5 .H3 1950 Africa : continent of the future / | DT12 .G86 Inside Africa / | DT14 .A3746 2009 Africans and the politics of popular culture / | DT14 .E36 2002 The civilizations of Africa : a history to 1800 / | DT14 .M38 2010 Why Africa matters / | DT14 .N92 1984 Islam, Christianity, and African identity / |
Papers from the conference "Popular Cultures in Africa," held at the University of Texas at Austin, Mar. 30-Apr. 1, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Yoruba Bata to Bata Fuji / 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 N. 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 Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson -- Family health awareness in popular Yoruba arts / Arinpe 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.