Oxford Street, Accra : City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism /

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In Oxford Street, Accra, Ato Quayson analyzes the dynamics of Ghana's capital city through a focus on Oxford Street, part of Accra's most vibrant and globalized commercial district and a microcosm of historical and urban processes that have made Accra the variegated and contradictory metro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Quayson, Ato (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Globalisierung
Kultur
Gesellschaft
Soziale Situation
HISTORY > Africa > West.
Accra
Ghana > Accra > Oxford Street.
Ghana > Accra.
Accra (Ghana) > History.
Oxford Street (Accra, Ghana)
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: urban theory and performative streetscapes
  • Ga Akutso formation and the question of hybridity : the Afro-Brazilians (Tabon) of Accra
  • The spatial fix : colonial administration, disaster management, and land-use distribution in early twentieth-century Accra
  • Osu borla no, sardine chensii soo: Danes, Euro-Africans, and the transculturation of Os
  • "The beautyful ones": tro-tro slogans, cell phone advertising, and the hallelujah chorus
  • "Este loco, loco" : transnationalism and the shaping of Accra's salsa scene
  • Pumping irony : gymming, the Kóbóló, and the cultural economy of free time
  • The lettered city : literary representations of Accra
  • Conclusion: on urban free time: Vladimir, Estragon, and Rem Koolhaas.

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