Johannes Fabian was one of the first anthropologists to
introduce the concept of popular culture into the study of
contemporary Africa. Drawing on his research in the Shaba region of
Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), he has been writing
for thirty years about the practices, beliefs, and objects that
make up popular culture in an urban African setting: labor and
language, religious movements, theater and storytelling, music and
painting, grassroots literacy and historiography.
In Moments of Freedom Fabian reflects on anthropological uses of
the concept of popular culture. He retraces how his explorations of
popular culture in this urban-industrial setting showed that
classiclal culture theory did not account for large aspects of
contemporary African life. Popular culture draws on various genres
of representation and performance, and Fabian explores the notion
of genre itself as it applies to Shaba religious discourse,
painting, and the theater. He also addresses the element of time
and how spatial thinking about culture, ethnicity, and
globalization acts as an obstacle to appreciating the
contemporaneity of African popular culture. The volume ends with a
discussion of contestation in light of current calls for
democratization.
In Moments of Freedom, Johannes Fabian takes stock of decades of
anthropological work on popular culture and examines the
development of his own thought over time. Throughout the volume, he
makes eloquent connections to other firelds such as history,
folklore studies, and cultural studies, suggesting areas for
further research in each.
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