Research Catalog

Title

Globalization, oral performance, and African traditional poetry / Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah.

Author

Na'allah, Abdul Rasheed

Publication

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

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Details

Description

xiii, 100 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

"This book discusses globalization trends and influences on traditional African oral literary performance and the direction that IIorin oral art is forced to take by the changes of the twenty-first century electronic age." --Cover.

Series Statement

Palgrave pivot

Uniform Title

Palgrave pivot.

Subjects

• Africa
• Middle class
• Arts and globalization
• Folklore > Performance
• Oral interpretation of poetry
• Middle class > Africa
• Arts and globalization > Africa
• African literature
• Black author
• Folklore > Performance > Africa
• Civilization > Western influences
• Africa > Civilization > Western influences
• Oral tradition in literature
• Oral tradition > Africa
• Ethnology > Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

African art and the crisis of poverty and social divisions in a global era -- Criticism of African art and literature -- Ilorin traditional poetry in the context of bourgeois aesthetics -- A pact between the writer and the oral performer -- Conclusion.

Call Number

ReCAP 18-17965

ISBN

• 331975078X
• 9783319750781
• 3319750798 (canceled/invalid)
• 9783319750798 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018937087

OCLC

1018047969

Author

Na'allah, Abdul Rasheed, author.

Title

Globalization, oral performance, and African traditional poetry / Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah.

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Palgrave pivot

Palgrave pivot.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 18-17965