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Globalization, oral performance, and African traditional poetry /

331975078X

3319750798

9783319750781

9783319750798

331975078X

9783319750781

Globalization, oral performance, and African traditional poetry /

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Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah.

Cham, Switzerland :

Palgrave Macmillan,

[2018]

1 online resource (XIII, 100 pages) :

2 illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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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 their global reach, imitation of foreign forms, and collaboration with the owners of 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).

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African literature.

Arts and globalization-- Africa.

Ethnology-- Africa.

Folklore-- Performance-- Africa.

Oral interpretation of poetry.

Oral tradition-- Africa.

Oral tradition in literature.

African languages.

African literature.

Culture-- Study and teaching.

Ethnology.

Folklore-- Performance.

Oral tradition in literature.

Oral tradition.

Politics and government.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Folklore & Mythology.

Africa, Civilization, Western influences.

Africa.

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Naʼallah, Abdul Rasheed

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