Indigenous African Popular Music, Volume 2 - Social Crusades and the Future (1st ed. 2022)

This volume examines how African indigenous popular music is deployed in democracy, politics and for social crusades by African artists. Exploring the role of indigenous African popular music in environmental health communication and gender empowerment, it subsequently focuses on how the music portrays the African future, its use by African youths, and how it is affected by advanced broadcast technologies and the digital media. Indigenous African popular music has long been under-appreciated in communication scholarship. However, understanding the nature and philosophies of indigenous African popular music reveals an untapped diversity which can only be unraveled by the knowledge of myriad cultural backgrounds from which its genres originate. With a particular focus on scholarship from Nigeria, Zimbabwe and South Africa, this volume explores how, during the colonial period and post-independence dispensation, indigenous African music genres and their artists were mainstreamed in order to tackle emerging issues, to sensitise Africans about the affairs of their respective nations and to warn African leaders who have failed and are failing African citizenry about the plight of the people. At the same time, indigenous African popular music genres have served as a beacon to the teeming African youths to express their dreams, frustrations about their environments and to represent themselves. This volume explores how, through the advent of new media technologies, indigenous African popular musicians have been working relentlessly for indigenous production, becoming champions of good governance, marginalised population, and repositories of indigenous cultural traditions and cosmologies.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Pop Music, Culture and Identity
Release date:	June 2023
First published:	2022
Editors:	Abiodun Salawu • Israel A. Fadipe
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Pages:	465
Edition:	1st ed. 2022
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-098707-7
Categories:	Books
LSN:	3-03-098707-8
Barcode:	9783030987077

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