عنوان

Electoral Music Reception

LA120389

انگلیسی

Electoral Music Reception

[Article]

Garhe Osiebe

Leiden

Brill

Audiences in Africa are a grossly under-researched demographic. This paper centres on the comparative analysis of two electoral audience-based surveys conducted between April and September 2012 in the Nigerian states of Bayelsa and Lagos; following the April 2011 presidential election in Nigeria that ushered the erstwhile President Goodluck Jonathan into power. The surveys sought to know the electorates' reaction to the electoral campaign songs that endorsed Jonathan and how these songs informed their choice of candidate. The paper's analysis combines an appreciation of the surveys' results and the surveys' procedure while focusing on the middle-ground between aesthetics and politics in the context. Audiences in Africa are a grossly under-researched demographic. This paper centres on the comparative analysis of two electoral audience-based surveys conducted between April and September 2012 in the Nigerian states of Bayelsa and Lagos; following the April 2011 presidential election in Nigeria that ushered the erstwhile President Goodluck Jonathan into power. The surveys sought to know the electorates' reaction to the electoral campaign songs that endorsed Jonathan and how these songs informed their choice of candidate. The paper's analysis combines an appreciation of the surveys' results and the surveys' procedure while focusing on the middle-ground between aesthetics and politics in the context.

2017

439-466

Matatu

49/2

1875-7421

African Studies

audiences/electorates

Comparative Studies & World Literature

Criticism & Theory

Cultural History

elections

Literature & Culture

Literature and Cultural Studies

Nigeria

Postcolonial Literature & Culture

prebendalism

Garhe Osiebe

10.1163/18757421-04902011

p

[Article]

275578

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