Description: Views of the Field Introduction by Karin Barber The World in Creolisation by Ulf Hannerz Popular Culture in Africa: Findings and Conjectures by Johannes Fabian Oral Tradition Revisited Lesotho Migrants' Songs and the Anthropology of Experience by David Coplan Mande Oral Popular Culture Revisited by the Electronic Media by Mamadou Diawara Popular Music and the Construction of Pan-Yoruba Identity by C. A. Waterman Social History, Social Criticism and Interpretation Plantation Protest: The History of Mozambican Song by Leroy Vail and Landeg White The Chimurenga Songs of the Zimbabwean War of Liberation by Alec J. D. Pongweni South African Theatre: Ideology and Rebellion by Andrew Horn Popular Writing in Ghana: A Sociology and Rhetoric by Richard Priebe Popular Reactions to the Petro-Naira by Karin Barber Painting in Zaire by Bogumil Jewsiewicki Whose Music? The Songs of Remmy Ongala and Orchestra Super Matimila by Werner Gruebner Women in Popular Culture Women and Modern African Popular Fiction by Jane Bryce Either One or the Other: Images of Women in Nigerian Television by Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi Women in Cultural Work The Fate of Kamiriithu People's Theatre in Kenya by Ngugi wa Thiong'o Kanga: Popular Cloths with Messages by Elisabeth Linnebuhr "Little Genres of Everyday Life" Politics and Urban Folklore in Nigeria by Ropo Sekoni The "Thing" and Its Doubles in Cameroonian Cartoons by Achille Mbembe The World of the Yoruba Taxi Driver: An Interpretive Approach to Vehicle Slogans by Olatunde Bayo Lawuyi The Local and the Global Sophiatown: The View from Afar by Ulf Hannerz Africa Civilized, Africa Uncivilized: Local Culture, World System and South African Music by Veit Erlmann

Please Wait