Cloth $99.95 ISBN: 9781905422869 Published August 2009 World sales rights except India
Paper $34.95 ISBN: 9781905422876 Published August 2009 World sales rights except India

The Popular and the Public

Cultural Debates and Struggles over Public Space in Modern India, Africa and Europe

Edited by Preben Kaarsholm and Isabel Hofmeyr

Edited by Preben Kaarsholm and Isabel Hofmeyr

Distributed for Seagull Books

286 pages | 12 halftones | 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 | © 2009
Cloth $99.95 ISBN: 9781905422869 Published August 2009 World sales rights except India
Paper $34.95 ISBN: 9781905422876 Published August 2009 World sales rights except India
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.
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