Karin Barber

A History of African Popular Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

A journey through the history of African popular culture from the seventeenth century to the present day.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9781107016897
• ISBN-10: 1107016894
• Artikelnr.: 49005618

Autorenporträt

Karin Barber is a Fellow of the British Academy and Professor Emerita of African Cultural Anthropology at the University of Birmingham. She was appointed CBE in 2012 for services to African studies. She is the author of a number of books and articles on African popular culture, including The Generation of Plays: Yoruba Popular Life in Theatre (2000) and Yoruba Print Culture and the First Yoruba Novel (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Early popular culture: sources and silences
3. Mines, migrant labour and township culture
4. The city and the road
5. The crowd, the state ... and songs
6. The media: globalisation and deregulation from the 1990s till today
7. Conceptualising change in African popular culture
Bibliography
Index.