Theme: Orality, New Media, and the Postcolonial Experience
FINAL CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
DEADLINE for the receipt of proposals is 31 January 2012
• Tradition, modernity/globalization and the transformation of the oral performance in Africa
• Orality and political resistance in postcolonial Africa
• Oral performance aesthetics and postcolonial theory
• The oral, the written and the digitized: The evolution of fieldwork methodologies in the study of oral performance in Africa
• The milieu, the message, the medium: text and context in contemporary oral performance
• The impact of Popular Culture, Youth Culture and Globalization on oral performance in Africa
• Spoken word, popular music, technology and protest culture
• Television, cinema, radio, and public performances
• Orality, film, and new media in postcolonial politics
• The changing audience of the oral performance in Africa
Abstracts of no more than 500 words, in either language, bearing the author’s name and institutional affiliation and a brief bio note should be sent to: Prof. Mokgale Makgopa:
[email protected].
For more information please see attached
document.
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