Bogolan

Victoria L Rovine

• Paperback | Engels | African Expressive Cultures
• Focusing on a single Malian textile identified variously as bogolanfini, bogolan, or mudcloth, Victoria L. Rovine traces the dramatic technical and st... Lees meer

Performing Trauma in Central Africa

Laura Edmondson

• Hardcover | Engels | African Expressive Cultures
• What are the stakes of cultural production in a time of war? How is artistic expression prone to manipulation by the state and international humanitar... Lees meer

Abidjan USA

Daniel B Reed

• Hardcover | Engels | African Expressive Cultures
• Daniel B. Reed integrates individual stories with the study of performance to understand the forces of diaspora and mobility in the lives of musicians... Lees meer

Spiders of the Market

David Afriyie Donkor

• Hardcover | Engels | African Expressive Cultures
• The Ghanaian trickster-spider, Ananse, is a deceptive figure full of comic delight who blurs the lines of class, politics, and morality. David Afriyie... Lees meer

Tabloid Journalism in South Africa

Herman Wasserman

• Paperback | Engels | African Expressive Cultures
• Less than a decade after the advent of democracy in South Africa, tabloid newspapers have taken the country by storm. One of these papers--the Daily S... Lees meer

Live from Dar Es Salaam

Alex Perullo

• Hardcover | Engels | African Expressive Cultures
• When socialism collapsed in Tanzania, the government-controlled music industry gave way to a vibrant independent music scene. Alex Perullo explores th... Lees meer

Portraiture & Photography in Africa

• Paperback | Engels | African Expressive Cultures
• Beautifully illustrated, Portrait Photography in Africa offers new interpretations of the cultural and historical roles of photography in Africa. Twel... Lees meer

Humor and Violence

Z S Strother

• Paperback | Engels | African Expressive Cultures
• Humor and Violence examines the rich history of portraying Europeans in Central African art in images ranging from heart-wrenching scenes of human tra... Lees meer

Africa and France

Dominic Thomas

• Paperback | Engels | African Expressive Cultures
• This stimulating and insightful book reveals how increased control over immigration has changed cultural and social production in theater, literature,... Lees meer

Masquerading Politics

John Thabiti Willis

• Hardcover | Engels | African Expressive Cultures
• In West Africa, especially among Yoruba people, masquerades have the power to kill enemies, appoint kings, and grant fertility. John Thabiti Willis ta... Lees meer

Tropical Cowboys

Ch Didier Gondola

• Hardcover | Engels | African Expressive Cultures
• During the 1950s and 60s in the Congo city of Kinshasa, there emerged young urban male gangs known as "Bills" or "Yankees." Modeling themselves on the... Lees meer

Seeing the Unseen

Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi

• Paperback | Engels | African Expressive Cultures
• How do arts convey the existence of potent knowledge without revealing details of that knowledge? In Seeing the Unseen , art historian Susan Elizabeth... Lees meer

Trickster Theatre

Jesse Weaver Shipley

• Hardcover | Engels | African Expressive Cultures
• Trickster Theatre traces the changing social significance of national theatre in Ghana from its rise as an idealistic state project from the time of i... Lees meer

Oliver Mtukudzi

Jennifer W Kyker

• Hardcover | Engels | African Expressive Cultures
• Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi, a Zimbabwean guitarist, vocalist, and composer, has performed worldwide and released some 50 albums. One of a handful of artis... Lees meer

Ifá Divination, Knowledge, Power, and Performance

• Hardcover | Engels | African Expressive Cultures
• This landmark volume compiled by Jacob K. Olupona and Rowland O. Abiodun brings readers into the diverse world of Ifá--its discourse, ways of thinking... Lees meer

Global Nollywood

• Hardcover | Engels | African Expressive Cultures
• Global Nollywood considers this first truly African cinema beyond its Nigerian origins. In 15 lively essays, this volume traces the engagement of the ... Lees meer

Contemporary African Fashion

• Paperback | Engels | African Expressive Cultures
• African fashion is as diverse and dynamic as the continent and the people who live there. While experts have long recognized the importance of clothin... Lees meer

Jay Pather, Performance, and Spatial Politics in South Africa

Ketu H Katrak

• Paperback | Engels | African Expressive Cultures
• Jay Pather, Performance and Spatial Politics in South Africa offers the first full-length monograph on the award-winning choreographer, theater direct... Lees meer

Jay Pather, Performance, and Spatial Politics in South Africa

Ketu H Katrak

• Hardcover | Engels | African Expressive Cultures
• Jay Pather, Performance and Spatial Politics in South Africa offers the first full-length monograph on the award-winning choreographer, theater direct... Lees meer

African Fashion, Global Style

Victoria L Rovine

• Paperback | Engels | African Expressive Cultures
• African Fashion, Global Style provides a lively look at fashion, international networks of style, material culture, and the world of African aesthetic... Lees meer

Sonic Space in Djibril Diop Mambety's Films

Vlad Dima

• Hardcover | Engels | African Expressive Cultures
• The art of Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambety's cinema lies in the tension created between the visual narrative and the aural narrative. His wor... Lees meer

A Dance of Assassins

Allen F Roberts

• Paperback | Engels | African Expressive Cultures
• A Dance of Assassins presents the competing histories of how Congolese Chief Lusinga and Belgian Lieutenant Storms engaged in a deadly clash while str... Lees meer

Women's Songs from West Africa

• Hardcover | Engels | African Expressive Cultures
• Exploring the origins, organization, subject matter, and performance contexts of singers and singing, Women's Songs from West Africa expands our under... Lees meer

Live from Dar Es Salaam

Alex Perullo

• Paperback | Engels | African Expressive Cultures
• When socialism collapsed in Tanzania, the government-controlled music industry gave way to a vibrant independent music scene. Alex Perullo explores th... Lees meer