Globalization, Oral Performance, and African Traditional Poetry

Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XIII, 100 Seiten

2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-75078-1 (ISBN)

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This book discusses globalization trends and influences on traditional African oral literary performance and the direction that Ilorin oral art is forced to take by the changes of the twenty-first century electronic age. It seeks a new definition of contemporary African bourgeois in terms of its global reach, imitation of foreign forms and collaboration with the owners of the primary agencies. Additionally, it makes a case that African global lords or new bourgeoisie who are largely products of the new global capital and multinational corporations' socio-political and cultural influences fashion their tastes after western cultures as portrayed in the digital realm.

Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah is Vice-Chancellor, Chief Executive Officer, and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Kwara State University, Nigeria. He is co-author of Introduction to African Oral Literature and Performance (2005), and author of Africanity, Islamicity and Performativity: Identity in the House of Ilorin (2009), African Discourse in Islam, Oral Traditions, and Performance (2010), and Cultural Globalization And Plurality: Africa and the New World (2011).

1. African Art and the Crisis of Poverty and Social Divisions in a Global Era.- 2. Criticism of African Art and Literature.- 3. Ilorin Traditional Oral Art in the Context of Bourgeois Aesthetics.- 4. A Pact between the Writer and the Oral Performer.- 5. Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	06.04.2018
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 100 p. 2 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	293 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	African Oral Poetry • African Oral Tradition • Dadakuada • Egungun • Globalization and Cultural Heritage • Ilorin oral Literature • Ilorin Oral Performance • Marxism • Marxist-Leninist • New Bourgeoisie • Nigeria
ISBN-10	3-319-75078-X / 331975078X
ISBN-13	978-3-319-75078-1 / 9783319750781
Zustand	Neuware