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Everything Is Sampled - Digital and Print Mediations in African Arts and Letters (Hardcover)
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Everything Is Sampled - Digital and Print Mediations in African Arts and Letters (Hardcover)
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Everything Is Sampled examines the shifting modes of production and
circulation of African artistic forms since the 1980s, focusing on
digital culture as the most currently decisive setting for these
changes. Drawing on works of cinema, literature, music, and visual
art, Akin Adekan. addresses two main questions. First, given the
various changes that the institutions producing African arts and
letters have undergone in the past four decades, how have the
representational impulses in these forms fared in comparison with
those at work in pervasively digital cultures? Second, how might a
long view of these artistic forms across media and in different
settings affect our understanding of what counts as art, as text,
as authorship? Immersed in digital culture, African artists today
are acutely aware of the media-saturated circumstances in which
they work and actively bridge them by making ethical choices to
shape those circumstances. Through an innovative development and
analysis of five modes of creative practice—curation,
composition, adaptation, platform, and remix—Everything Is
Sampled offers an absorbingly complex yet nuanced approach to
appreciating the work of several generations of African writers,
directors, and artists. No longer content to just fill a spot in
the relay between the conception and distribution of a work, these
artists are now also quick to view and reconfigure their works
through different modes of creative practice.
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