LEADER 05475nam 2200565 450 001 9910720067603321 005 20230801215533.0 010 $a9783031156175$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031156168 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-15617-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7241929 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7241929 035 $a(OCoLC)1377816479 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-15617-5 035 $a(EXLCZ)9926523122200041 100 $a20230801d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aAfrican battle traditions of insult $everbal arts, song-poetry, and performance /$fedited by Tanure Ojaide 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland AG,$d[2023] 210 4$dİ2023 215 $a1 online resource (323 pages) 225 1 $aAfrican Histories and Modernities,$x2634-5781 311 08$aPrint version: Ojaide, Tanure African Battle Traditions of Insult Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031156168 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Introduction: African Battle Traditions of Insult: Verbal Arts, Song-Poetry, and Performance?Tanure Ojaide -- Part I: African Origins -- 2. Battle by All Means: UrhoboUdje Song-Poetry and Performance?Tanure Ojaide -- 3. Halo: Music Text, Songs and Dance Performances in Ewe Folklore and Tradition?Honore Missihoun -- 4. Autobiographical Verbal Duels in Yoruba Polygamous Households?Adetayo Alabi -- 5. Shairiand Malumbano: The Tradition of Verbal Warfare in Swahili Literature?Mwenda Mbatiah -- 6. The Moral Authority of Battle Songs from Zimbabwe?s Shona Cultures: Context, Performance, and Audience of an Indigenous Knowledge System?Beauty Vambe -- Part II: Diaspora Manifestations -- 7. African-American Dozens?Michele Randolph and Maliek Lewis -- 8. Greek Letter Organization Step Show?Debra Smith -- 9. Battle Rap: An Exploration of Competitive Rhyming in Hip Hop ?Matthew Oware -- 10. Fighting Words: Songs of Conflict, Censure, and Cussout in Trinidad and Tobago Carnival?Funso Aiyejina -- 11. ?Oral Tradition and Cultures in Dialogue: OndjangoAngolano and Jongo da Serrinha?? Tonia Leigh Wind -- 12. ?Stanzas and Sticks: Poetic and Physical Challenges in the Afro-Brazilian Culture of the Paraiba Valley, Rio de Janeiro??Matthias RohrigAssuncao -- Part III: New Transformations -- 13. The Origin, Nature, Function, and Significance of Yabis?Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega. 14. Epistemic Recuperation and Contemporary Reconfiguration of the Verbal Battle Tradition in the Poetry of Kofi Anyidoho and Tanure Ojaide?Mathias IroroOrhero -- 15. Battle Songs as UtaneMiseve: Contestations over Political Power in Post 2017 Military Coup in Zimbabwe?Maurice TaonezviVambe -- 16. The source and nature of Bragging in Bongo fleva in Tanzania?Dunlop Ochieng. 330 $aThis book explores the ?battles? of words, songs, poetry, and performance in Africa and the African Diaspora. These are usually highly competitive, artistic contests in which rival parties duel for supremacy in poetry composition and/or its performance. This volume covers the history of this battle tradition, from its origins in Africa, especially the udje and halo of the Urhobo and Ewe respectively, to its transportation to the Americas and the Caribbean region during the Atlantic slave trade period, and its modern and contemporary manifestations as battle rap or other forms of popular music in Africa. Almost everywhere there are contemporary manifestations of the more traditional, older genres. The book is thus made up of studies of contests in which rivals duel for supremacy in verbal arts, song-poetry, and performance as they display their wit, sense of humor, and poetic expertise. Tanure Ojaide is the Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. Educated at Ibadan and Syracuse, Tanure Ojaide has published twenty-one collections of poetry, as well as novels, short stories, memoirs, and scholarly work. He has won the ANA Poetry Prize four times: 1988, 1994, 2003, and 2011. His other awards include the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Africa Region, the All-Africa Okigbo Prize for Poetry, and the BBC Arts and Africa Poetry Award. In 2016 he won both the African Literature Association?s Folon-Nichols Award for Excellence in Writing and the Nigerian National Order of Merit Award for the Humanities. In 2018 he co-won the Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. He has won the National Endowment for the Arts grant, twice the Fulbright, and twice the Carnegie African Diaspora Program fellowship. 410 0$aAfrican Histories and Modernities,$x2634-5781 606 $aAfrican diaspora 606 $aAfrican languages$xRhetoric 606 $aAfrican poetry$xHistory and criticism 606 $aExhortation (Rhetoric) 606 $aSongs$zAfrica 615 0$aAfrican diaspora. 615 0$aAfrican languages$xRhetoric. 615 0$aAfrican poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aExhortation (Rhetoric) 615 0$aSongs 676 $a809.10096 702 $aOjaide$b Tanure 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910720067603321 996 $aAfrican battle traditions of insult$93418278 997 $aUNINA