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020 _a9781905422876
041 _aeng
082 _a306.0954
_bPOP
100 _aKaarsholm, Preben, ed.
_93737
245 _aPopular and the Public:
_bCultural Debates and Struggles Over Public Space in Modern India, Africa and Europe
_cedited by Preben Kaarshola and Isabel hofmeyr
260 _bSeagull,
_c2009.
_aLondon:
300 _axxii, 286 p.
505 _a1. Popular Cultural Materials and Public Spheres: Perspectives from India, Africa and Europe by Isabel Hofmeyr and Preben Kaarsholm 2. Archive as Work-in-Progress by Karin Barber and PF de Moraes Farias 3. Constructing the Popular: Challenges of Archiving Ugandan 'Popular' Music by Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza 4. 'From War Cacophonies to Rhythms of Peace': Popular Cultural Music in Post-1986 Uganda by Richard Ssewakiryanga and Joel Isabirye 5. Songs of War and Peace: Popular Song as Commentary, Mediation and Critique of the War in Northern Uganda by Okello Ogwang 6. Archive and Experience by Ashish Rajadhyaksha 7. Contesting Indian Islam in KwaZulu-Natal: The Muharram Festival in Durban, 2002 by Goolam Vahed 8. Culture as Cure: Civil Society and Moral Debates in KwaZulu-Natal after Apartheid by Preben Kaarsholm 9. Calcutta's Battala Books in Nineteenth-Century Bengali Popular Culture by Sumanta Banerjee 10. Appropriating Realism: The Transformation of Popular Visual Iconography in Late-Nineteenth-Century Calcutta by Kamalika Mukherjee11. Danish Orientalism by Martin Zerlang12. Books in Heaven: Dreams, Texts and Conspicuous Circulation by Isabel Hofmeyr13. Writing, Self-Realization and Community: Henry Muoria and the Creation of a Nationalist Public Sphere in Kenya by Bodil Folke Frederiksen 14. An Equal Right to the City: Contests over Cultural Space in Calcutta by Partha Chatterjee Notes on Contributors Index
520 _aExamines 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
650 _aPopular culture-India
_93738
700 _4edited by
_aHofmeyr ,Isabel
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