Youth and Popular Culture in Africa (eBook, ePUB)

Media, Music, and Politics
Redaktion: Ugor, Paul

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the range of vibrant cultural production and political activism of youth in Africa today, as expressed through art, music, theater, and online media.

This edited collection focuses on the links between youth and African popular culture. Contributions by a distinguished group of scholars explore popular culture produced and consumed by young people in contemporary Africa. Essays cover a variety of cultural representations--visual, oral, written, performative, fictional, social, and virtual--created by African youth, mostly about their lives and their immediate societies, and for themselves, but also consumed by the larger public and shared locally and globally. The volume examines the range of music, art, and media African youth produce, under what conditions or contexts they produce such work, and the aesthetic dimensions of these texts as cultural artifacts. Essays further explore why these textual practices matter as social facts, as interpretive acts, and as symbols of the cultural activism of young people in a rapidly changing world-a world where the global cultural economy is the prime terrain for the relentless struggles over the meanings that come to shape political-economic and social systems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800102101
• Artikelnr.: 62616289

Autorenporträt

Edited by Paul Ugor

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Youth
Media
and Popular Arts Culture in Contemporary Africa -Paul Ugor
Illinois State University Media Globalization
Popular Afro Hip-Hop and Postcolonial Political Critique 1. Hip-Hop
Civic Awareness and Anti-Establishment Politics in Senegal: The Rise of the Y'en a marre Movement-Bamba Ndiaye
University of Louisville
Kentucky 2. Rapping
Imagination and Urban Space in Dar es Salaam-David Kerr
University of Birmingham 3. Entertainers & Breadwinners: Music in the Lives of Street Children in Abidjan
Côte d'Ivoire-Ty-Juana Taylor
University of California
Los Angeles 4. Young People
Music
and Socio-Political Change in Post-War Sierra Leone-Ibrahim Bangura
University of Sierra Leone. 5. The Politics of Pleasure in Nigerian Afrobeats -Paul Ugor
Illinois State University Popular Online Media and Democratic Participation and Engagement 6. The Regeneration of Play: Popular Culture as Infra-politics on Instagram-James Yeku
University of Kansas
Lawrence 7. "This is very embarrassing and insulting": Flash Fiction Ghana and Transgressive Writing-Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang
University of Ghana
Legon 8.Capitalizing on Transgression: Popular Homophobia and Popular Culture in Uganda-Austin Bryan
Northwestern University
Evanston 9. Twitter
Youth Agency
and New Narratives of Power in #RhodesMustFall-Jendele Hungbo
Bowen University
Iwo
Nigeria 10. Resisting Political Oppression: Youth and Social Media in Zimbabwe-Godfrey Maringira
Sol Plaatje Universit & Simbarashe Gukurume
Great Zimbabwe University Popular Arts
Everyday Life and the Politicization of Culture 11. Dressing en Style: Fashion and Fandom in Niger-Adeline Masquelier
Tulane University
New Orleans 12. The Revolution Lost: Generational Change and Urban Youth Logics in Conakry's Dance Scene-Adrienne Cohen
Colorado State University 13. Culture Players & Poly-Ticks: Botswana Youth
Popular Culture Practices & Resonances-Connie Rapoo
University of Botswana 14. 'Born Free': it's cute
but it's a lie': #FeesMustFall and Youth Deconstruction of South Africa's Liberation Narrative-Kristi Heather Kenyon
Juliana Coughlin and David Bosc
University of Winnipeg 15. Afterword: Young People and the Future of African Worlds-Nadine Dolby
Purdue University