African appropriations : cultural difference, mimesis, and media / / Matthias Krings
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| Autore: |
Krings Matthias
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| Titolo: |
African appropriations : cultural difference, mimesis, and media / / Matthias Krings
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 0-253-01640-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910822204003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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African expressive cultures.