基本説明
Brings together a range of international scholars to examine how popular culture has shaped the public sphere, providing an alternative space for political debate in 19th and 20th Century India, Africa and Europe.
Full Description
"The Popular and the Public" brings together a range of international scholars to examine how popular culture has shaped the public sphere, providing an alternative space for political debate in 19th and 20th Century India, Africa and Europe. A diverse range of case studies include: competition between Christians, Muslims and Traditionalists within public culture in Nigeria; popular music and songs of war and peace in Uganda; Battala chap-books, popular painting and battles over urban space in Calcutta; Islamic festivals and moral debates around AIDS and crime in post-apartheid South Africa; Danish orientalism; nationalist journalism in Kenya; and, notions of 'miraculous literacy' among Evangelical Christians in Africa.
Contents
1. Popular Cultural Materials and Public SpheresIndia, Africa and Europe by Isabel Hofmeyr and Preben Kaarsholm2. Archive as Work-in-Progress by Karin Barber and PF de Moraes Farias3. Constructing the Popular: Challenges of Archiving Ugandan 'Popular' Music by Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza4. 'From War Cacophonies to Rhythms of Peace': Popular Cultural Music in Post-1986 Uganda by Richard Ssewakiryanga and Joel Isabirye5. Songs of War and Peace: Popular Song as Commentary, Mediation and Critique of the War in Northern Uganda by Okello Ogwang6. Archive and Experience by Ashish Rajadhyaksha7. Contesting Indian Islam in KwaZulu-Natal: The Muharram Festival in Durban, 2002 by Goolam Vahed8. Culture as Cure: Civil Society and Moral Debates in KwaZulu-Natal after Apartheid by Preben Kaarsholm9. Calcutta's Battala Books in Nineteenth-Century Bengali Popular Culture by Sumanta Banerjee10. Appropriating Realism: The Transformation of Popular Visual Iconography in Late-Nineteenth-Century Calcutta by Kamalika Mukherjee11. Danish Orientalism by Martin Zerlang12. Books in Heaven: Dreams, Texts and Conspicuous Circulation by Isabel Hofmeyr13. Writing, Self-Realization and Community: Henry Muoria and the Creation of a Nationalist Public Sphere in Kenya by Bodil Folke Frederiksen14. An Equal Right to the City: Contests over Cultural Space in Calcutta by Partha ChatterjeeNotes on ContributorsIndex
