Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture - 9780367483869

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Routledge Handbook of African Popular CultureAuthor(s): Grace A Musila\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367483869, 978-0367483869\nSynopsis\nThis handbook brings together an international team of scholars from different disciplines to reflect on African popular cultural imaginaries. These imaginaries in the sense of cultural productions, contexts, consumers, producers, platforms, and the material, affective and discursive resources they circulate are influential in shaping African realities. Collectively, the chapters assembled in this handbook index the genres, methods, mediums, questions and encounters that preoccupy producers, consumers and scholars of African popular cultural forms across a range of geohistorical and temporal contexts.\n\nDrawing on forms such as newspaper columns, televised English Premier League football, speculative arts, romance fiction, comedy, cinema, music and digital genres, the con.