Youth and Popular Culture in Africa : Media, Music, and Politics /

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Explores the range of vibrant cultural production and political activism of youth in Africa today, as expressed through art, music, theater, and online media.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ugor, Paul (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Rochester : University of Rochester Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Youth > Social conditions.
Popular culture.
Mass media and youth.
Arts and youth.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
Media studies.
Arts et jeunesse > Afrique.
Culture populaire > Afrique.
Jeunesse > Afrique > Conditions sociales.
Medias et jeunesse > Afrique.
Arts and youth > Africa.
Popular culture > Africa.
Youth > Africa > Social conditions.
Mass media and youth > Africa.
Africa.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Youth, Media, and Popular Arts Culture in Contemporary Africa
  • Hip-Hop, Civic Awareness, and Antiestablishment Politics in Senegal: The Rise of the Y en a Marre Mo
  • Rapping, Imagination, and Urban Space in Dar es Salaam
  • Entertainers and Breadwinners Music in the: Lives of Street Children in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
  • Young People, Music, and Sociopolitical Change in Postwar Sierra Leone
  • The Politics of Pleasure in Nigerian Afrobeats
  • The Regeneration of Play: Popular Culture as Infrapolitics on Instagram
  • "This Is Very Embarrassing and Insulting:" Flash Fiction Ghana and Transgressive Writing
  • Capitalizing on Transgression: Popular Homophobia and Popular Culture in Uganda
  • Twitter, Youth Agency, and New Narratives of Power in #RhodesMustFall
  • Resisting Political Oppression: Youth and Social Media in Zimbabwe
  • Dressing en Style: Fashion and Fandom in Niger
  • The Revolution Lost: Generational Change and Urban Youth Logics in Conakry's Dance Scene
  • Culture Players and Poly-Ticks: Botswana Youth and Popular Culture Practices
  • #FeesMustFall and Youth Deconstruction of South Africa's Liberation Narrative
  • Young People and the Future of African Worlds
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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