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• Title:Oral and written expressions of African cultures / edited by Toyin Falola and Fallou Ngom.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Falola, Toyin.
  Ngom, Fallou.
  University of Texas at Austin.
  
• Published/Created:Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, ©2009.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: GR350 .O73 2009
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Folk literature, African--Congresses.
  Oral tradition--Africa--Congresses.
  
• Description:xxxviii, 223 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
  
• Notes:Based on a conference on "Popular Cultures in Africa" held at the University of Texas at Austin, March 30-April 1, 2007.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781594606472 (paper)
  1594606471 (paper)
  
• Contents:Pt. I. African Cultures and Their African Media
  Ch. 1. New Grammar of Dialogue: The Media and the Cultural Restyling of Political Representation in Kenya / George Ogola
  Ch. 2. Role of Newspapers in Nigeria's Democratization, 1960-2007 / Ryan Groves
  Ch. 3. Metaphors of Modernity: The Urban Woman in Onitsha Market Literature / Ainehi Ejieme Edoro
  Ch. 4. "Imported from America" or Fugitive Forgeries? Drum Magazine and Black Popular Culture in 1950s Apartheid South Africa / Colette Guldimann
  Pt. II. Music, Politics, Poetry and African Cultures
  Ch. 5. From Aesthetic Creativity to Political Profundity: Popular Music and Politics in Kenya and Argentina / Shadrack W. Nasong'o and Amy E. Risley
  Ch. 6. Chisels That Cause Blisters in the Eardrums of Society: South African Spoken Word Poetry / Francis Lukhele
  Ch. 7. Aghanii al-Banaat: Lyrics of Exposure and Negotiating Social/Gender Relations, Femininity, and Body Images / Saadia I. Malik
  Ch. 8. Alive and Well in the Caribbean: Reflections of African Language and Culture in Puerto Rico / Ann Albuyeh
  Pt. III. Fiction, Crisis and African Cultures
  Ch. 9. Rene Maran's Batouala and Africa: The Limits of the Alliance / Naminata Diabate
  Ch. 10. Narrative Weave of Community in the Tisseroman / Gretchen Kellough
  Ch. 11. Reading in Apartheid South Africa / Patricia G. Clark
  Ch. 12. Working to Erase Misconceptions: The New Literature of AIDS in Africa / Jessica Achberger.