Kathrin Schmidt - Globalisation, Commodification & Cultural Production in Africa - Paperback

Kathrin Schmidt

Globalisation, Commodification and Cultural Production in AfricaContemporary Theatre in Sierra Leone\nAuthor(s): Kathrin Schmidt\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032584416, 978-1032584416\nSynopsis\nThis book engages with contemporary cultural production in Africa, focusing on theatre in Sierra Leone as main case study. The author provides coverage of, and insights into, such themes as cultural globalisation, commodification, the global creative economy, culture and development, international relations and contemporary cultural production in Sierra Leone within the context of local and global flows of people, media, images, technologies, finance and ideas.\n\nCombining the analysis of theatre in Sierra Leone and its aesthetics with its policy, structural and institutional context, this book highlights in much detail and nuance the interconnectedness between the micro- and the macro-levels of cultural production, .