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Cultural Debates and Struggles Over Public Space in Modern India, Africa and
Preben Kaarsholm
Isabel Hofmery
ISBN: 9781905422876
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Seagull Books London Ltd
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Examines how popular culture has shaped the public sphere, providing an alternative space for political debate in 19th and 20th Century India, Africa and Europe. This title includes case studies on competition between Christians, Muslims and Traditionalists within public culture in Nigeria, and popular music and songs of war and peace in Uganda.
"The Popular and the Public" brings together a range of international scholars to examine how popular culture has shaped the public sphere, providing an alternative space for political debate in 19th and 20th Century India, Africa and Europe. A diverse range of case studies include: competition between Christians, Muslims and Traditionalists within public culture in Nigeria; popular music and songs of war and peace in Uganda; Battala chap-books, popular painting and battles over urban space in Calcutta; Islamic festivals and moral debates around AIDS and crime in post-apartheid South Africa; Danish orientalism; nationalist journalism in Kenya; and, notions of 'miraculous literacy' among Evangelical Christians in Africa.
| ISBN | 1905422873 | | Pages | 202 | | ISBN13 | 9781905422876
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Seagull Books London Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 486 | | Imprint | Seagull Books London Ltd | | Published in | Greenford | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 230 | | Publication date | 31 Dec 2008 | | Width (mm) | 161 | | Library of Congress | P94 | | Spine width (mm) | 25 | | DEWEY | 306 | | Academic level | Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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| Introduction | | Popular cultural materials and public spheres : perspectives from India, Africa and Europe by Isabel Hofmeyr and Preben Kaarsholm | | | | | | Archive as work-in-progress by Karin Barber and P. F. de Moraes Farias | | 3 | | | | Constructing the popular : challenged of archiving Ugandan 'popular' music by Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza | | 25 | | | | From 'war cacophonies to rhythms of peace' : popular cultural music in post-1986 Uganda by Richard Ssewakiryanga and Joel Isabirye | | 47 | | | | Songs of war and peace : popular song as commentary, mediation and critique of war in northern Uganda by Okello Ogwang | | 69 | | | | Archive and experience by Ashish Rajadhyaksha | | 99 | | | | Contesting Indian Islam in KwaZulu-Natal : the Muharram Festival in Durban 2002 by Goolam Vahed | | 107 | | | | Culture as cure : civil society and moral debates in Kwa-Zulu Natal after apartheid by Preben Kaarsholm | | 141 | | | | Appropriating realism : the transformation of popular visual iconography in late-nineteenth-century Calcutta by Kamalika Mukherjee | | 183 | | | | Danish Orientalism by Martin Zerlang | | 209 | | | | Books in heaven : dreams, texts and conspicuous circulation by Isabel Hofmeyr | | 229 | | | | Writing, self-realization and community : Henry Muoria and the creation of a nationalist public sphere in Kenya by Bodil Folke Frederiksen | | 245 | | | | An equal right to the city : contests over cultural space in Calcutta by Partha Chatterjee | | 263 |
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