A journey through the history of African popular culture from the seventeenth century to the present day.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Early popular culture: sources and silences; 3. Mines, migrant labour and township culture; 4. The city and the road; 5. The crowd, the state ... and songs; 6. The media: globalisation and deregulation from the 1990s till today; 7. Conceptualising change in African popular culture; Bibliography; Index.