Pdf media globalization, african popular culture, and. Karin barber is senior lecturer at the centre of west african studies, the university of birmingham. The african american influence on popular culture is among the most sweeping and lasting this country has seen. Extensive contact in many african countries and several african cultures and languages provide a comparative reference base for this topic. Popular culture in africa is the product of everyday life. Pdf nollywood video films impact on nigerian and other. Nollywood video films impact on nigerian and other african environments and cultures article pdf available in applied spectroscopy 3 december 2014 with 8,679 reads how we measure reads.
By referring to the african world, we recognize that the popular culture of urban. African popular cultures extrapolate from sociocultural, political, and economic circumstances in concert with global movements and ideologies. A history of african popular culture by karin barber january 2018. Here are some of the most bizarre taboo rituals from all over the world. Black popular culture is a form of popular culture. A history of african popular culture, by karin barber. By the 1980s the audience for african popular music had expanded to include western listeners. History of african popular culture, by karin barber the english. English and the audience of an african popular culture.
It is usually taken to mean the culture of ordinary people. By closing this message, you are consenting to our use of cookies. This chapter examines the emergence of the historical study of african popular culture. In exploring the multiple meanings that africa has in american popular culture, africa in the american imagination argues that these cultural products embody multiple perspectives and speak to various sociopolitical contexts. To learn about our use of cookies and how you can manage your cookie settings, please see our cookie policy. African popular cultures extrapolate from sociocultural, political, and economic. In most western languages culture usually means civilization or refinement of the mind and in particular the results of such refinement, like education, art and literature. In africa hip hop has gradually dominated the popular culture sphere through youths that found in the genre a sense of affiliation and belonging by adapting its philosophy and its other cultural. The sociologically fascinating part about this is the ubiquity that is, it is everywhere of the mass media and our popular culture. Introduction chapter 1 a history of african popular culture. Jukskei kwaito new musical voice for the urban youth of s. Reprinted with 3 1 permission of wadsworth publishing, a division of thomson learning. The main objective of this paper is to examine african culture and values. Simple statistics like frequency distribution, percentile were used.
African popular culture reflects local or regional traditions as well. The ways in which african american popular culture may reflect the particular values and ethos of african americans and the larger american society. Popular culture and the study of africa african studies. These ideas helps also in the preservation of african cultural values. On august 20, 2005, the east african standard published an extensive profile of caroline mutoko, a leading radio announcer in kenya, describing her as kenyas fastest. The course will cover various forms of cultural expression and genres, including popular film, music, dance, comics and cartoons, fashion, sport, street art, theatre. Refining the definition of an african american communitydefined practice a supplemental report to the african american population report for the california reducing disparities project.
And it is the dynamism of this culture that makes africa what it is. African popular music, body of music that emerged in africa in the 1960s, mixing indigenous influences with those of western popular music. Popular culture and oral traditions in african film film. D, at the university of london, examined popular culture in south african drum magazine and cultural exchanges between black south african and american societies during. The essays in the present volume originate in papers that were. Download pdf popular culture in africa free online new. Causes and consequences of rapid erosion of cultural. It is shakespeare for british culture, voltaire, sartre for french culture and breyten breytenbach for south african culture. African historians and popular culture a companion to. African cultural values african cultural values have been discussed by j. This anthology provides insightful data on and discussions of a wide array of popular cultural manifestations and theoretical perspectives, covering such issues as kinship, religion, conflict resolution, music, cinema, drama, andliterary texts. The relationship between foreign languages, linguistic intelligibility, and african popular culture has long been the subject of significant misunderstanding.
The culture of a people is their identity as it affords them due recognition. The impact of internet on african education and culture. Despite the surge of recent work on african popular culture, this is the first comprehensive survey of popular theatre. Pg board of studies sept 11 paper 9 african popular culture m,12223. Africans and the politics of popular culture book description. The impact of internet on african education and culture opeoluwa tosin eluwole underwriters laboratories pavilion a, ashwood park ashwood way rg23 8bg, basingstoke united kingdom nsima sylvanus udoh underwriters laboratories pavilion a, ashwood park ashwood way rg23 8bg, basingstoke united kingdom olugbenga david ojo. David kerrs book provides a survey of theatre forms in subsaharan africa from precolonial times to the present.
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. Readings in african popular culture readings in african. It is not possible to talk of much african theatre as if it fell into discrete historical or national patterns. To acquire the critical skills necessary for analyzing popular culture in muslim african contexts and learn how to apply them to survey the different paths of inquiry into popular culture to gain experience in presenting oral and written arguments about popular culture in muslim africa. The major genres of popular theatre are set in their historical and social contexts, with an emphasis on continuity over time. Although ethnographers and scholars of artistic tradition have provided a rich if uneven record of african popular culture in the past, it was not until the 1970s that the first efforts were made to explore popular culture. Janice hocker rushing 1983 has argued, for example, that an enduring myth in u.
In this book, karin barber offers a journey through the history of music, theatre, fiction, song, dance, poetry, and. Media globalization, african popular culture, and history form below. Despite a history of institutionalized racism, black artists, entertainers, and entrepreneurs have had enormous impact on american popular culture. The focus of the book is on east africa, and particularly kenya, where the author lived and worked for ab out 25 years.
Article information, pdf download for popular culture and social change in africa. You probably consume lots of media content in the form of music, tv, movies and the internet. Popular culture in africa is a product of everyday life. Pdf having witnessed increasing popularity and boost in africa from the 1990s, hiphop is rapidly becoming a dominant culture among the youths as a. A history of african popular culture by karin barber. While some rituals can involve something as simple as a silent, individual prayer, othersespecially those involving a larger groupcan be extremely painful and violent. Just as many of the influences on hip hop come from the streets of. Citizenship articulation within nigerian video, paper presented at the aegis conference on african studies, african studies centre, leiden, the netherlands, 1114 july. Topics may include black cinema, blues and jazz music, black nationalism, hip hop, black social movements, blacks and sports culture, popular dance, and the cultural history of black style. Refining the definition of an african american community. The decision of the first conference of african ministers of culture on the endorsement of the draft charter for african cultural renaissance, from to14 december 2005, in nairobi, kenya.
Communication, gender, and culture by julie chapter 9, pp. Mass culture, popular culture and cultural identity. African periodicals and popular culture by charles muiru ngugi word count. The language of multiculturalism in south african soaps.
It is a product of the diverse populations that today inhabit the continent of africa and the african diaspora. Given the diversity, size, and complex cultures that, at the very least, constitute an admixture of traditional, modern, western, and eastern religious traditions, it is rather difficult, if not impossible, to look to a single comprehensive work through which to study africa so as to contextualize its popular cultural practices. This paper therefore is aimed at examining the causes and consequences of rapid erosion of cultural values in nigeria. This study was carried out in adoodoota lga, with a sample size of 203. Available formats pdf please select a format to send. African popular music also styled afropop, afro pop or afro pop, like african traditional music, is vast and varied. By referring to the african world, we recognize that the popular culture of urban africa takes shape within a dynamic array of local, regional, and global communities, through which media, technology, capital, ideas, and people circulate with greater and greater frequency. Nigerian video films by paul ugor and giovanna santanera please quote as follow. An example is the chiluba, a jacket made from secondhand imported western clothing that.
The idea of popular culture is one that is undoubtedly very familiar to you. Africans and the politics of popular culture on jstor. Access article in pdf english and the audience of an african popular culture the case of nigerian video film moradewun adejunmobi. This paper investigates how the spread of new media technology such as digital audio and video recorders, computers, iphones, and the internet has led to the proliferation of alternative social histories, by taking into consideration the. By using this service, you agree that you will only keep articles for personal use, and will not openly distribute them via dropbox. Pdf media globalization, african popular culture, and history. The language of multiculturalism in south african soaps and sitcoms ian barnard california state university, northridge, usa this paper examines selected episodes from recent south african television sitcoms and soap operas in order to show how current popular culture in south africa is. Rather than examining any particular popular culture as practice, the focus. Pdf african popular culture and the path of consciousness. Traditional folk culture, popular culture and commercial mass culture culture has always been a means to create perceived difference on the basis of inclusion and exclusion.
Wood department of communication, university of north carolina at chapel. Affirming that any human community is necessarily governed by rules and principles based on. It may carry meanings related to current events, politics, or the sense of identity of those who produce and consume it. Popular culture and democracy in some southern contexts core. This course focuses on the rich variety of african popular culture as a way of elucidating the politics and poetics of urban social life in the modern african world. Many genres of popular music like blues, jazz, afrobeats, salsa, zouk, and rumba derive to varying degrees on musical traditions from africa, taken to the americas by. Colonial boundaries ignored cultural and linguistic unities, and ancient movements throughout the continentsometimes motivated by trade including the transatlantic slave trade, religion. The first page of the pdf of this article appears above. Popular culture and oral traditions in african film. Most of the observations and comparisons with european culture will apply to africa as. Introduction chapter 1 a history of african popular. The culture in africa is varied and manifold, consisting of a mixture of countries with various tribes that each have their own unique characteristic from the continent of africa. African popular culture school of social and political science. Most contemporary genres of african popular music build on crosspollination with western popular music.
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