Routledge handbook of African popular culture. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Handbook of African popular culture; African popular culture
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Grace A. Musila ; foreword by Karin Barber.
• Editors: Musila, Grace A
• Contents: Foreword by Karin Barber Thirteen Ways of Reading African Popular Culture Grace A Musila Ethiopian Imprints: Reading and Writing Ethiopia in 1930s South Africa Corinne Sandwith Local Authors, Ephemeral Texts: Anglo-Scribes and Anglo-Literates in West African Newspapers Stephanie Newell Varieties of Romance in Contemporary Popular Togolese Literature Susanne Gerhmann Against ‘African Popular Literature’, or: The Weeping Woman Ranka Primorac Gendering the Popular: Making a Case for FEMRITE in Uganda and Beyond Lynda Gichanda Spencer and Erik Falk Scandals, Controversies and African Literary Prizes: Between Intertextuality and Plagiarism Doseline Kiguru TED Talks, Blogging, and Celebrity: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and the Popular Imagination Steve Almquist Flash Fiction Ghana and Popular Culture: An Overview Adwoa Opoku-Agyemang and Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Methods of Speculation in African Popular Culture Nedine Moonsamy Literature in the Great Lakes Region: Between Resistance and Resilience Ma ë line Le Lay Funding Popular Culture in Tanzania: Crowdfunding, Self-Funding and the Live Performance as Fundraiser Nikitta Dede Adjirakor Nigerian Film Audiences on the Internet: Influences, Preferences and Contentions Añulika Agina "Don’t Tell Me You Want to Marry a White Man!": The Encounter with Euro-American Characters and Settings in African Commercial Cinema Alessandro Jedlowski Popular Culture and the Women Fandom of English Premier League Football in Eldoret, Kenya Solomon Waliaula Modelling Success: Women and Self-Making in Kenyan Digital Spaces Dina Ligaga Recognizing LGBTQ+ Faces beyond the Mauritian Nation-State Ryan Poinsamy Coding the City: Mapping Eco-Systems and Zones of Opportunity in Kinshasa’s Emerging Tech Scene Katrien Pype Matters of Kwaito and Why Kwaito Matters Rangoato Hlasane and Bhekizizwe Peterson Meaning and Multiplicity: Complexity and Play in Tanzanian Hip Hop David Kerr Politics and the Music Video in Nigeria Femi Eromosele The Police is Your Friend: Instagram Comedy and the Defamiliarization of the Postcolonial State James Yék ú "Di one Wey Dey Pain me Pass…!": Social Satire, Caricature and Mimicry in the Comic Act of AY Rotimi Fasan #ObinimStickerChallenge : Visual Mediations of Suspicion in Religious Prosumer Parody Media in Contemporary Ghana Joseph Oduro-Frimpong
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 306.096; Popular culture -- Africa
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000588347; 9781000588323; 9781003080855
• Related ISBNs: 9780367483869
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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