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Introduction : Thirteen Ways of Reading African Popular Culture / Grace A Musila -- Ethiopian Imprints : Reading and Writing Ethiopia in 1930s South Africa / Corinne Sandwith -- Local Authors, Ephemeral Texts: Anglo-Scribes and Anglo-Literates in Early West African Newspapers / Stephanie Newell -- Varieties of Romance in Contemporary Popular Togolese Literature / Susanne Gerhman -- Against 'African Popular Literature' / Ranka Primorac -- Gendering the Popular : FEMRITE and African Popular Culture / Lynda Gichanda Spencer and Erik Falk / Scandals, Controversies and African Literary Prizes : Between Intertextuality and Plagiarism / Doseline Kiguru -- Talkin' TED, Blogging and Celebrity : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and the Popular Imagination / Steve Almquist -- Flash Fiction Ghana and Popular Culture : An Overview / Adwoa Opoku-Agyemang and Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang -- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle : Methods of Speculation in African Popular Culture / Nedine Moonsamy -- Literature in Africa's Great Lakes region : Between Resistance and Resilience / Maeline le Lay -- Funding Popular Culture in Tanzania : Crowdfunding, Self-Funding and the Live Performance as Fundraiser / Nikitta Dede Adjirakor -- Nigerian film audiences on the Internet : Influences, Preferences and Contentions / Añulika Agina -- 'Don't tell me you want to marry a white man!' : The Encounter with Euro-American Characters and Settings in African Commercial Cinema / Alessandro Jedlowski -- Popular Culture and the Women Fandom of English Premier League Football in Eldoret, Kenya / Solomon Waliaula -- Modelling Success : Women and Self-Making in Kenyan Digital Spaces / Dina Ligaga -- Recognising LGBTQ Faces beyond the Mauritian Nation-State / Ryan Poinsamy -- Coding the City : Mapping Eco-Systems and Zones of Opportunity in Kinshasa's Emerging Tech Scene / Katrien Pype -- Matters of Kwaito and why Kwaito Matters / Rangoato Hlasane and Bhekizizwe Peterson -- Meaning and Multiplicity : Complexity and Play in Tanzanian Hip-Hop / David Kerr -- Music Video, Popular Culture and the Question of the Political / Femi Eromosele -- The Police is Your Friend : Instagram Comedy and the Defamiliarization of the Postcolonial State / James Yeku -- "Di wone wey dey pain me pass...!" : Social Satire, Caricature and Mimicry in the Comic Act of AY / Rotimi Fasan -- #ObinimStickerChallenge : Visual Mediations of Suspicion in Religious Prosumer Parody Media in Contemporary Ghana / Joseph Oduro-Frimpong.

A Companion to Popular Culture is a landmark survey of contemporary research in popular culture studies that offers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the field.-Includes over two dozen essays covering the spectrum of popular culture studies from food to folklore and from TV to technology -Features contributions from established and up-and-coming scholars from a range of disciplines -Offers a detailed history of the study of popular culture -Balances new perspectives on the politics of culture with in-depth analysis of topics at the forefront of popular culture studies

pt. I. Theorizing the popular and the material -- pt. II. From material media to digital materiality -- pt. III. The agency of things and the negotiation of meaning -- pt. IV. Popular narratives and material culture -- pt. V. Material culture and the creative self.

Cultural nemesis --Theory of pseudo-culture --Dialectic of Enlightenment and The Ring of the Nibelungen --Decay of 'aura' and the schema of mass culture --Star power --Situating music socially --On popular music --Adorno's radio days --Film and television --Woody Allen's culture industry --Walking a critical line home.

"In this book, renowned Latin American intellectuals, Pablo Alabarces and Néstor García Canclini, bring us up to date on the changes in the status and role of the popular classes in Latin American democracies over the past two decades. Building on decades long research and experience in the field of cultural studies, the authors ask how the digitalization and economization of society are changing the reality of political participation and social inequality in Latin America and beyond, leading to new forms of economic and cultural marginalization. García Canclini focuses on the rapid digitalization of our society and economies, ruminating over the future of political participation and democracy in the coming age of algorithms, transnationalization, and social precarity for growing swaths of the population. By contrast, Alabarces focuses on the disintegration and commodification of popular cultures throughout Latin America in the last two decades and discusses the consequences on democratic projects in the region. Both pieces approach the question of how democratic projects on a local, regional, national, and transnational level can deal with galloping social disintegration and accelerating political discontent as an increasing number people within the course of this digital revolution gain voice: all this against the authoritarian or technocratic alternatives that have been gaining ground again. The introduction by Sarah Corona contextualizes the contributions and their authors in the academic and political debate. She connects their focus on popular cultures to broader questions regarding the future of nation states and democracies facing multiple crises in the region and beyond. Post-Popular Cultures and Digital Capitalism in Latin America will be of interest to researchers and postgraduate students in political science, sociology, and cultural studies looking to freshen their views as well as develop an understanding of the Global South's perspective on current global issues"--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Re-placing the Popular -- 1. Dancing ... (Popular Music) -- 2. In Spite of ... (Postmodernity) -- 3. Myself ... (Politics) -- Conclusion: From Media to Popular Culture to Everyday Life (1991) -- Notes -- References -- Index

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION -- 1 CULTURAL STUDIES AND THE STUDY OF POPULAR CULTURE: AN INTRODUCTION -- 2 TELEVISION -- 3 FICTION -- 4 FILM -- 5 NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES -- 6 MUSIC -- 7 CONSUMPTION IN EVERYDAY LIFE -- 8 GLOBALISATION AND POPULAR CULTURE -- 9 POSTSCRIPT: THE CIRCUIT OF CULTURE -- REFERENCES -- INDEX

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