Urban Legends, Colonial Myths: Popular Culture and Literature in East Africa Export

@book{citeulike:4367068, abstract = {This book deals with popular media, ranging from inscriptions on matatu (taxis) to cartoon strips and fiction columns in newspapers. If cartoon strips and humour columns in popular periodicals provide alternative sites of expression in a fast-evolving socio-cultural formation, then the matatu discourses signal a radical avant-garde African cultural expression. The book also provides a compelling reading of how urban legends, rumours and jokes proliferate alongside pop music to express a sub-culture that is at once a critique and a celebration of modernity and its fragments.}, author = {Nyairo, J. and Ogude, J.}, citeulike-article-id = {4367068}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://books.google.com/books?id=zKo8AQAACAAJ&dq=nyairo+joyce+%22urban+legends,+colonial+myths%22&ei=TbPrScacIoeyyQTDxryTAg}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://books.google.com/books?id=zKo8AQAACAAJ}, keywords = {africa, culture, ire, taskr}, posted-at = {2009-04-20 00:29:22}, priority = {2}, title = {Urban Legends, Colonial Myths: Popular Culture and Literature in East Africa}, url = {http://books.google.com/books?id=zKo8AQAACAAJ&dq=nyairo+joyce+%22urban+legends,+colonial+myths%22&ei=TbPrScacIoeyyQTDxryTAg} }

TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:4367068 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4367068 N2 - This book deals with popular media, ranging from inscriptions on matatu (taxis) to cartoon strips and fiction columns in newspapers. If cartoon strips and humour columns in popular periodicals provide alternative sites of expression in a fast-evolving socio-cultural formation, then the matatu discourses signal a radical avant-garde African cultural expression. The book also provides a compelling reading of how urban legends, rumours and jokes proliferate alongside pop music to express a sub-culture that is at once a critique and a celebration of modernity and its fragments. TI - Urban Legends, Colonial Myths: Popular Culture and Literature in East Africa KW - africa KW - culture KW - ire KW - taskr AU - Nyairo, J AU - Ogude, J UR - http://books.google.com/books?id=zKo8AQAACAAJ&dq=nyairo+joyce+%22urban+legends,+colonial+myths%22&ei=TbPrScacIoeyyQTDxryTAg ER -