Indigenous African Popular Music, Volume 1 - Prophets and Philosophers (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)

This volume explores the nature, philosophies and genres of indigenous African popular music, focusing on how indigenous African popular music artistes are seen as prophets and philosophers, and how indigenous African popular music depicts the world. 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 only be unraveled by knowledge of the myriad cultural backgrounds from which its genres originate. Indigenous African popular musicians have become repositories of indigenous cultural traditions and cosmologies.With a particular focus on scholarship from Nigeria, Zimbabwe and South Africa, this volume explores the work of these pioneering artists and their proteges who are resiliently sustaining, recreating and popularising indigenous popular music in their respective African communities, and at the same time propagating the communal views about African philosophies and the temporal and spiritual worlds in which they exist.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Pop Music, Culture and Identity
Release date:	June 2022
First published:	2022
Editors:	Abiodun Salawu • Israel A. Fadipe
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	401
Edition:	1st ed. 2022
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-097883-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Easy listening, MOR Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > Immigration & emigration Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Easy listening, MOR Promotions
LSN:	3-03-097883-4
Barcode:	9783030978839

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