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

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

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

Veiling in Africa

• Paperback | Engels | African Expressive Cultures
• The tradition of the veil, which refers to various cloth coverings of the head, face, and body, has been little studied in Africa, where Islam has bee... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Highlife Saturday Night

Nathan Plageman, Nate Plageman

• Paperback | Engels | African Expressive Cultures
• Highlife Saturday Night captures the vibrancy of Saturday nights in Ghana--when musicians took to the stage and dancers took to the floor--in this pen... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Arts of Being Yoruba

Adeleke Adeeko

• Paperback | Engels | African Expressive Cultures
• There is a culturally significant way of being Yoruba that is expressed through dress, greetings, and celebrations--no matter where in the world they ... Lees meer