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A History of African Popular Culture

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Popular culture in Africa is the product of everyday life: the unofficial, the non-canonical. And it is the dynamism of this culture that makes Africa what it is. In this book, Karin Barber offers a journey through the history of music, theatre, fiction, song, dance, poetry, and film from the seventeenth century to the present day. From satires created by those living in West African coastal towns in the era of the slave trade, to the poetry and fiction of townships and mine compounds in South Africa, and from today's East African streets where Swahili hip hop artists gather to the juggernaut of the Nollywood film industry, this book weaves together a wealth of sites and scenes of cultural production. In doing so, it provides an ideal text for students and researchers seeking to learn more about the diversity, specificity and vibrancy of popular cultural forms in African history.

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New Approaches to African History

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: Cambridge University Press., 2018

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English

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9781139061766

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text

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computer

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online resource

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Area Studies, African Studies
Social and Cultural Anthropology,
History, Anthropology, African History

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Karin Barber

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arin

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https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139061766

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