Africans and the politics of popular culture. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Toyin Falola and Augustine Agwuele.
• Other Names: Falola, Toyin; Agwuele, Augustine
• Contents: From primitive to popular culture : why Kant never made it to Africa / Hetty ter Haar -- Popular culture of Yoruba kinship practices / Augustine Agwuele -- Justice from below : cultural capital, local-global identity processes, and social change in Eastern Niger / Antoinette Tidjani Alou -- Popular culture and the resolution of boundary disputes in the Bamenda Grasslands of Cameroon / Emmanuel M. Mbah -- Reverse mission or asylum Christianity? : a Nigerian church in Europe / Asonzeh Ukah -- Performing pop tradition in Nigeria : from Yoruba Bata to Bata Fuji / Debra L. Klein -- Reclaiming the past or assimilationist rebellion? : transforming the self in contemporary American cinema / Celeste A. Fisher -- Neither bold nor beautiful : investigating the impact of Western soap operas on Kenya / Maurice N. Amutabi -- The lions in the jungle : representations of Africa and Africans in American cinema / Sarah Steinbock-Pratt -- Sexuality in Caribbean performance : homoeroticism and the African body in Trinidad / Denise Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson -- Family health awareness in popular Yoruba arts / Arinpe Adejumo -- Literary cultural nationalists as ambassadors across the diaspora / Nicholas M. Creary -- Popular resistance literature and the Nigerian Railway Corporation, 1955-60 / Tokunbo A. Ayoola.
• Publisher Details: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 333 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 306.2096; Popular culture -- Political aspects -- Africa; Culture populaire -- Aspect politique -- Afrique; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; LITERARY CRITICISM -- African; Civilization; Popular culture -- Political aspects; Kultur; Politik; Massenkultur; Africa -- Civilization; Africa; Afrika
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781580467094; 1580467091
• Related ISBNs: 9781580463317; 1580463312
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.