Bongo media worlds : producing and consuming popular culture in Dar es Salaam
edited by Matthias Krings and Ute Reuster-Jahn
Bok · Engelsk · 2014
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| Omfang | 286 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | The bongo flava industry in Tanzania and artists' strategies for success / Uta Reuster-Jahn and Gabriel Hacke -- Antivirus: the revolt of bongo flava artists against a media-and-entertain-ment empire in Tanzania / Uta Reuster-Jahn -- Tanzanian music videos in the Black Atlantic: the production, distribution and visual references of bongo flava video clips / Gabriel Hacke -- Walking a tightrope: Orijino Komedi and political satire on Tanzanian television / Marie Luise Brüggemann -- The hour of consolation: mediating charisma in Tanzanian televangelism / Jan-Christoph Tromp -- Don't Mess with an Angel: the reception of a Mexican telenovela in Tanzania / Jörn Ratering -- Turning rice into pilau : the art of video narration in Tanzania / Matthias Krings -- The rise and fall of a Tanzanian movie star: the case of Steven Kanumba / Claudia Böhme -- Daima mrembo: Beauty forever: promoting commercial interests and national identity through female bodies in the Miss Tanzania pageant / Tanja Rohrbach -- Katuni: an ethnographic study of Dar es Salaam's comic world / Mareike Späth -- Living rooms in Dar es Salaam: a photographic essay / Gabriel Hacke. - "In the wake of the transformation from a socialist to a neoliberal capitalist economy, Tanzania has witnessed an unprecedented proliferation of cultural production which went hand in hand with a steep rise in formal and informal media outlets. Bongo Media Worlds provides insights into the diverse and creative practices of producing and consuming popular media in Dar es Salaam, the country's cultural capital. Bongo, an augmentative form of the Swahili noun ubongo meaning brain, is the popular nickname for Dar es Salaam and by extension the whole of Tanzania: One has to use one's brains to survive in the city..."
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| ISBN | 9783896458346
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