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Popular snapshots and tracks to the past : Cape Town, Nairobi, Lubumbashi
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- Creator
- Danielle de Lame and Ciraj Rassool (eds.)
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Tervuren : Royal Museum for Central Africa, [2010]
- ©2010
- Physical Details
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- 294 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9789074752794, 9074752799
- OCLC
- ocn700047640
- Includes bibliographical references.
- On the popular, the public, the fixed and the vernacular / Danielle de Lame -- Building social selves through images and sounds : post-scriptural creativity in Congo / Bogumil Jewsiewicki -- The Sheng generation : language and youth identity in Nairobi / Kiprop Lagat -- Meeting in bars and grills : nyama choma as a place of differential creativity / Mercy Gakii and Martin Tindi -- The postcolonial city as "prey and predator" in Meja Mwangi's "urban novels" / Tom Odhiambo -- Providing the dissenting voices : the evolution of popular interactive participatory community educational theatre from the experimental "Drumbeats on Kerenyaga" to the development of the Sigana art form as the collective voice of the masses in the post-Kamirithu era / Oby Obyerodhiambo -- Dynamics of popular transgression : the speed culture of Nairobi matatu / Mbugua wa-Mungai -- Let's laugh it off : Mufwankolo's theatre and the quest for morality / Donatien Dibwe -- Fetishes in the wrestling ring : sport as a ritual twilight / Richard Kabeke Lubembo -- Cape Town : the ambiguous heritage of Creolization in South Africa / Denis-Constant Martin -- Apartheid's icons in the new millennium : the making and remaking of settler histories / Leslie Witz -- Gazing at District Six : from fairyland to the Arab quarter / Zuleigha Adams -- Mapping museum-community relations in Lwandle / Bongami Mgijima and Vusi Buthelezi -- Ethnogrpahy and indigeneity in post-apartheid South Africa : continuities and contestations of culture / Ciraj Rassool -- "Refiguring" the music archives in South Africa / Valmont Layne
Subjects
- Popular culture -- South Africa -- Cape Town.
- Popular culture -- Kenya -- Nairobi.
- Popular culture -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Lubumbashi.
- Ethnology -- South Africa -- Cape Town.
- Ethnology -- Kenya -- Nairobi.
- Ethnology -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Lubumbashi.
- Cape Town (South Africa) -- Social life and customs.
- Nairobi (Kenya) -- Social life and customs.
- Lubumbashi (Congo) -- Social life and customs.