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Africa and France
Postcolonial Cultures, Migration, and Racism
Häftad, 2013
301 kr
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This stimulating and insightful book reveals how increased control over immigration has changed cultural and social production in theater, literature, and even museum construction. Dominic Thomas's analysis unravels the complex cultural and political realities of long-standing mobility between …
African Art, Interviews, Narratives
Bodies of Knowledge at Work
Av Joanna Grabski, Carol Magee
Häftad, 2013
310 kr
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Joanna Grabski and Carol Magee bring together a compelling collection that shows how interviews can be used to generate new meaning and how connecting with artists and their work can transform artistic production into innovative critical insights and knowledge. The contributors to this volume …
Highlife Saturday Night
Popular Music and Social Change in Urban Ghana
Häftad, 2012
310 kr
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Highlife Saturday Night captures the vibrancy of Saturday nights in Ghana—when musicians took to the stage and dancers took to the floor—in this penetrating look at musical leisure during a time of social, political, and cultural change. Framing dance band "highlife" music as a central medium …
African Art and Agency in the Workshop
Av Sidney Littlefield Kasfir, Till Förster
Häftad, 2013
321 kr
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The role of the workshop in the creation of African art is the subject of this revelatory book. In the group setting of the workshop, innovation and imitation collide, artists share ideas and techniques, and creative expression flourishes. African Art and Agency in the Workshop examines the variety …
Veiling in Africa
Häftad, 2013
304 kr
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The tradition of the veil, which refers to various cloth coverings of the head, face, and body, has been little studied in Africa, where Islam has been present for more than a thousand years. These lively essays raise questions about what is distinctive about veiling in Africa, what religious …
Global Nollywood
The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry
Av Matthias Krings, Onookome Okome
Inbunden, 2013
967 kr
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Global Nollywood considers this first truly African cinema beyond its Nigerian origins. In 15 lively essays, this volume traces the engagement of the Nigerian video film industry with the African continent and the rest of the world. Topics such as Nollywood as a theoretical construct, the …
Global Nollywood
The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry
Av Matthias Krings, Onookome Okome
Häftad, 2013
349 kr
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Global Nollywood considers this first truly African cinema beyond its Nigerian origins. In 15 lively essays, this volume traces the engagement of the Nigerian video film industry with the African continent and the rest of the world. Topics such as Nollywood as a theoretical construct, the …
Women's Songs from West Africa
Av Thomas A. Hale, Aissata G. Sidikou
Inbunden, 2013
589 kr
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Exploring the origins, organization, subject matter, and performance contexts of singers and singing, Women's Songs from West Africa expands our understanding of the world of women in West Africa and their complex and subtle roles as verbal artists. Covering Côte d'Ivoire, the Gambia, Mali, Niger, …
African Appropriations
Cultural Difference, Mimesis, and Media
Inbunden, 2015
903 kr
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Why would a Hollywood film become a Nigerian video remake, a Tanzanian comic book, or a Congolese music video? Matthias Krings explores the myriad ways Africans respond to the relentless onslaught of global culture. He seeks out places where they have adapted pervasive cultural forms to their own …
African Appropriations
Cultural Difference, Mimesis, and Media
Häftad, 2015
329 kr
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Why would a Hollywood film become a Nigerian video remake, a Tanzanian comic book, or a Congolese music video? Matthias Krings explores the myriad ways Africans respond to the relentless onslaught of global culture. He seeks out places where they have adapted pervasive cultural forms to their own …
Trickster Theatre
The Poetics of Freedom in Urban Africa
Inbunden, 2015
987 kr
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Trickster Theatre traces the changing social significance of national theatre in Ghana from its rise as an idealistic state project from the time of independence to its reinvention in recent electronic, market-oriented genres. Jesse Weaver Shipley presents portraits of many key figures in Ghanaian …
Trickster Theatre
The Poetics of Freedom in Urban Africa
Häftad, 2015
396 kr
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Trickster Theatre traces the changing social significance of national theatre in Ghana from its rise as an idealistic state project from the time of independence to its reinvention in recent electronic, market-oriented genres. Jesse Weaver Shipley presents portraits of many key figures in Ghanaian …
Tropical Cowboys
Westerns, Violence, and Masculinity in Kinshasa
Inbunden, 2016
930 kr
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During the 1950s and 60s in the Congo city of Kinshasa, there emerged young urban male gangs known as "Bills" or "Yankees." Modeling themselves on the images of the iconic American cowboy from Hollywood film, the "Bills" sought to negotiate lives lived under oppressive economic, social, and …
Tropical Cowboys
Westerns, Violence, and Masculinity in Kinshasa
Häftad, 2016
339 kr
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During the 1950s and 60s in the Congo city of Kinshasa, there emerged young urban male gangs known as "Bills" or "Yankees." Modeling themselves on the images of the iconic American cowboy from Hollywood film, the "Bills" sought to negotiate lives lived under oppressive economic, social, and …
Spiders of the Market
Ghanaian Trickster Performance in a Web of Neoliberalism
Inbunden, 2016
938 kr
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The Ghanaian trickster-spider, Ananse, is a deceptive figure full of comic delight who blurs the lines of class, politics, and morality. David Afriyie Donkor identifies social performance as a way to understand trickster behavior within the shifting process of political legitimization in Ghana, …
Spiders of the Market
Ghanaian Trickster Performance in a Web of Neoliberalism
Häftad, 2016
339 kr
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The Ghanaian trickster-spider, Ananse, is a deceptive figure full of comic delight who blurs the lines of class, politics, and morality. David Afriyie Donkor identifies social performance as a way to understand trickster behavior within the shifting process of political legitimization in Ghana, …
Abidjan USA
Music, Dance, and Mobility in the Lives of Four Ivorian Immigrants
Inbunden, 2016
987 kr
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Daniel B. Reed integrates individual stories with the study of performance to understand the forces of diaspora and mobility in the lives of musicians, dancers, and mask performers originally from Côte d'Ivoire who now live in the United States. Through the lives of four Ivorian performers, Reed …
Oliver Mtukudzi
Living Tuku Music in Zimbabwe
Inbunden, 2016
930 kr
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Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi, a Zimbabwean guitarist, vocalist, and composer, has performed worldwide and released some 50 albums. One of a handful of artists to have a beat named after him, Mtukudzi blends Zimbabwean traditional sounds with South African township music and American gospel and soul, to …
Abidjan USA
Music, Dance, and Mobility in the Lives of Four Ivorian Immigrants
Häftad, 2016
396 kr
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Daniel B. Reed integrates individual stories with the study of performance to understand the forces of diaspora and mobility in the lives of musicians, dancers, and mask performers originally from Côte d'Ivoire who now live in the United States. Through the lives of four Ivorian performers, Reed …
Oliver Mtukudzi
Living Tuku Music in Zimbabwe
Häftad, 2016
339 kr
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Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi, a Zimbabwean guitarist, vocalist, and composer, has performed worldwide and released some 50 albums. One of a handful of artists to have a beat named after him, Mtukudzi blends Zimbabwean traditional sounds with South African township music and American gospel and soul, to …
Humor and Violence
Seeing Europeans in Central African Art
Häftad, 2016
310 kr
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Humor and Violence examines the rich history of portraying Europeans in Central African art in images ranging from heart-wrenching scenes of human trafficking to playful parodies of colonialists. Z. S. Strother contends that the dialectic of humor and violence reveals deep insights into the …
Sonic Space in Djibril Diop Mambety's Films
Av Vlad Dima
Inbunden, 2017
958 kr
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The art of Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambety's cinema lies in the tension created between the visual narrative and the aural narrative. His work has been considered hugely influential, and his films bridge Western practices of filmmaking and oral traditions from West Africa. Mambety's film …
Sonic Space in Djibril Diop Mambety's Films
Av Vlad Dima
Häftad, 2017
408 kr
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The art of Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambety's cinema lies in the tension created between the visual narrative and the aural narrative. His work has been considered hugely influential, and his films bridge Western practices of filmmaking and oral traditions from West Africa. Mambety's film …
Art World City
The Creative Economy of Artists and Urban Life in Dakar
Häftad, 2017
454 kr
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Art World City focuses on contemporary art and artists in the city of Dakar, a famously thriving art metropolis in the West African nation of Senegal. Joanna Grabski illuminates how artists earn their livelihoods from the city's resources, possibilities, and connections. She examines how and why …
African Photographer J. a. Green
Reimagining the Indigenous and the Colonial
Av Martha G. Anderson, Lisa Aronson
Häftad, 2017
454 kr
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J. A. Green (1873–1905) was one of the most prolific and accomplished indigenous photographers to be active in West Africa. This beautiful book celebrates Green's photographs and opens a new chapter in the early photographic history of Africa. Soon after photography reached the west coast of Africa …
Public Art in South Africa
Bronze Warriors and Plastic Presidents
Av Kim Miller, Brenda Schmahmann
Inbunden, 2017
1055 kr
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How does South Africa deal with public art from its years of colonialism and apartheid? How do new monuments address fraught histories and commemorate heroes of the struggle? Across South Africa, statues commemorating figures such as Cecil Rhodes have provoked heated protests, while new works …
State and Culture in Postcolonial Africa
Enchantings
Inbunden, 2017
1024 kr
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How has the state impacted culture and cultural production in Africa? How has culture challenged and transformed the state and our understandings of its nature, functions, and legitimacy? Compelled by complex realities on the ground as well as interdisciplinary scholarly debates on the …
Public Art in South Africa
Bronze Warriors and Plastic Presidents
Av Kim Miller, Brenda Schmahmann
Häftad, 2017
458 kr
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How does South Africa deal with public art from its years of colonialism and apartheid? How do new monuments address fraught histories and commemorate heroes of the struggle? Across South Africa, statues commemorating figures such as Cecil Rhodes have provoked heated protests, while new works …
State and Culture in Postcolonial Africa
Enchantings
Häftad, 2017
445 kr
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How has the state impacted culture and cultural production in Africa? How has culture challenged and transformed the state and our understandings of its nature, functions, and legitimacy? Compelled by complex realities on the ground as well as interdisciplinary scholarly debates on the …
Masquerading Politics
Kinship, Gender, and Ethnicity in a Yoruba Town
Inbunden, 2018
987 kr
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In West Africa, especially among Yoruba people, masquerades have the power to kill enemies, appoint kings, and grant fertility. John Thabiti Willis takes a close look at masquerade traditions in the Yoruba town of Otta, exploring transformations in performers, performances, and the institutional …
