Africa articles from June 1997

Africa archives from June 1997

Preliminary notes on audiences in Africa.
June 22, 1997... AUDIENCES AS A HISTORICAL PRODUCT There have been audiences, presumably, as long as there has been performance. If, as Richard Bauman suggests, 'performance as a mode of spoken verbal communication consists in the assumption of responsibility...

'This is actually a good interpretation of modern civilisation': popular theatre and the social imaginary in Ghana, 1946-1966.
June 22, 1997... In the past two decades West African popular theatre has been the subject of a growing body of scholarly literature.(1) Researchers have made great strides in representing and analysing a theatre form that is highly ephemeral.(2) They have also...

Making up their own minds: readers, interpretations and the difference of view in Ghanaian popular narratives.
June 22, 1997... In the mid-1960s Asare Konadu adopted the pen name K. Bediako and submitted several of his 'light and perhaps a little bit educative' novels to the Presbyterian publishing house in Accra; other manuscripts were sent to local newspapers to be...

Indian films and Nigerian lovers: media and the creation of parallel modernities.
June 22, 1997... God make him rich so he can go to India. Mallam Sidi, husband of Hotiho. Sidi's ambition is for God to make him rich so he can go to India. Mallam Sidi, husband of Hotiho. His ambition is to see Hotiho. . . Mallam Sidi, husband of Hotiho. He...

Spirit media: the electronic media and Islam among the Dyula of northern Cote de'Ivoire.
June 22, 1997... Koko Quarter, Korhogo, 1973. It was late in the afternoon and there was a palpable stir in the community. 'Television! There's television! Come watch the television!' This was a major event for many of the people in the quarter. Although Korhogo...

'Music of origin': class, social category and the performers and audience of kiba, a South African migrant genre.
June 22, 1997... Much of the writing on performance and audience, from that covering oral genres in a barely literate Africa to that analysing the listenership and readership of major newspapers and television stations, is underpinned by the idea that specific...

The political freedom of video marketing in Ogbomoso, Nigeria.
June 22, 1997... This article examines the character of Yoruba video viewers, the style of marketing and the politics of choice in Ogbomoso, a Nigerian town located on the northern fringes of Qyo State, and a site in which, as an itinerant trading community,...

Venda Children's Songs: A Study in Ethnomusicological Analysis.
June 22, 1997... John Blacking (1928-90) was a major and influential figure in the fields of African music and ethnomusicology. Trained as an anthropologist and later as an ethnomusicologist, Blacking began writing scholarly articles in the early 1950s. By the...

Music, Culture and Experience: Selected Papers of John Blacking.
June 22, 1997... John Blacking (1928-90) was a major and influential figure in the fields of African music and ethnomusicology. Trained as an anthropologist and later as an ethnomusicologist, Blacking began writing scholarly articles in the early 1950s. By the...