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African appropriations : cultural difference, mimesis, and media / / Matthias Krings



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Autore: Krings Matthias Visualizza persona
Titolo: African appropriations : cultural difference, mimesis, and media / / Matthias Krings Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Bloomington, Indiana ; ; Indianapolis, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , 2015
©2015
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (328 p.)
Disciplina: 306.096
Soggetto topico: Popular culture - Africa
Mass media - Social aspects
Soggetto geografico: Africa Civilization
Africa Social life and customs
Subsaharisches Afrika
USA
Classificazione: LC 13465
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Acknowledgments and preface -- Introduction -- The wicked major : embodying cultural difference -- Lance Spearman : the African James Bond -- Black Titanic : pirating the White Star liner -- Vice and videos : Kanywood under duress -- Dar 2 Lagos : Nollywood in Tanzania -- Branding bin Laden : the global "war on terror" on a local stage -- Master and mugu : orientalist mimicry and cybercrime -- "Crazy white men" : (un)doing difference in African popular music -- Coda.
Sommario/riassunto: Why would a Hollywood film become a Nigerian video remake, a Tanzanian comic book, or a Congolese music video? Matthias Krings explores the myriad ways Africans respond to the relentless onslaught of global culture. He seeks out places where they have adapted pervasive cultural forms to their own purposes as photo novels, comic books, songs, posters, and even scam letters. These African appropriations reveal the broad scope of cultural mediation that is characteristic of our hyperlinked age. Krings argues that there is no longer an "original" or "faithful copy," but only endless transformations that thrive in the fertile ground of African popular culture.
Titolo autorizzato: African appropriations  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-253-01640-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910822204003321
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Serie: African expressive cultures.