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Africans and the Politics of Popular Culture (Hardcover)
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Africans and the Politics of Popular Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
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Explores the instrumentalization of various aspects of popular
culture in Africa. This anthology provides insightful data on and
discussions of a wide array of popular cultural manifestations and
theoretical perspectives, covering such issues as kinship,
religion, conflict resolution, music, cinema, drama, andliterary
texts. The issues cohere around the understanding that culture is
situational and political. Going beyond merely challenging popular
stereotypes and representations of Africans and African-related
practices in various outlets, the book reveals how popular cultural
practices are instruments that have been manipulated for personal
and collective survival. The book is distinctive in its
codification and explication of aspects of popular practices that
are based on data from countries in Africa, Europe, and the
Americas that showcase cultural negotiations either with reference
to how notions, values, norms, and images of Africans have been
packaged and exploited over theyears or how popular cultures are
used as tools of resistance and agitation by the various focal
groups that are discussed. The topics are presented and illustrated
in ways easily accessible to readers of all backgrounds. Toyin
Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the
Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the
University of Texas at Austin. Augustine Agwuele is an Assistant
Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Anthropology, Texas
State University, San Marcos. Contributors: Arinpe Adejumo,
Augustine Agwuele, Antoinette Tidjani Alou, Maurice N. Amutabi,
Tokunbo A. Ayoola, Nicholas M. Creary, Toyin Falola, Celeste A.
Fisher, Denise Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson, Hetty ter Haar, Debra L.
Klein, Emmanuel M. Mbah, Sarah Steinbock-Pratt, and Asonzeh Ukah
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