Popular Culture in Africa: The Episteme of the Everyday

By Stephanie Newell

Book Overview

Focusing on performances, audiences, social contexts and texts, contributors ask how African popular cultures contribute to the formation of an episteme. With chapters on theater, Nollywood films, blogging, and music and sports discourses, as well as on popular art forms, urban and youth cultures, and gender and sexuality, the book highlights the dynamism and complexity of contemporary popular cultures in sub-Saharan Africa.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415532922
• ISBN13: 9780415532921
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"