The Popular and the Public
Cultural Debates and Struggles over Public Space in Modern India, Africa and Europe
Distributed for Seagull Books
286 pages
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12 halftones
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6 1/4 x 9 1/2
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© 2009
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.
Contents
Introduction
Popular Cultural Materials and Public Spheres: Perspectives from India, Africa and Europe
Isabel Hofmeyr and Preben Kaarsholm
Archiving the Popular
Archive as Work-in-Progress
Karin Barber and P.F. de Moraes Farias
Constructing the Popular: Challenges of Archiving Ugandan 'Popular' Music
Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza
From 'War Cacophonies to Rhythms of Peace': Popular Cultural Music in Post-1986 Uganda
Richard Ssewakiryanga and Joel Isabirye
Songs of War and Peace: Popular Song as Commentary, Mediation and Critique of War in Northern Uganda
Okello Ogwang
Archive and Experience
Ashish Rajadhyaksha
Popular Culture and Formation of Publics
Contesting Indian Islam in KwaZulu-Natal: The Muharram Festival in Durban 2002
Goolam Vahed
Culture as Cure: Civil Society and Moral Debates in KwaZulu-Natal after Apartheid
Preben Kaarsholm
Calcutta's Battala Books in Nineteenth-Century Bengali Popular Culture
Sumanta Banerjee
Appropriating Realism: The Transformation of Popular Visual Iconography in Late-Nineteenth-Century Calcutta
Kamalika Mukherjee
Danish Orientalism
Martin Zerlang
Books in Heaven: Dreams, Texts and Conspicuous Circulation
Isabel Hofmeyr
Writing, Self-Realization and Community: Henry Muoria and the Creation of a Nationalist Public Sphere in Kenya
Bodil Folke Frederiksen
An Equal Right to the City: Contests over Cultural Space in Calcutta
Partha Chatterjee
Notes on Contributors
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