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African Expressive Cultures

African Expressive Cultures explores the richness and inventive spirit of the expressive arts in contemporary Africa, publishing single-authored studies and multi-authored collections from across the multidisciplinary landscape of African studies. Works will explore, but will not be limited to, the visual arts, television, radio, popular video, popular literature and theatre, puppet theatre, street theatre, performance music, popular music, social club activities, dance, sports, religion, and public and private ritual.Inquiries may be addressed to Dee Mortensen, Senior Sponsoring Editor, mortense@indiana.edu

Patrick McNaughton, editor

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Africa and France

Postcolonial Cultures, Migration, and Racism

Dominic Thomas

Paperback $28.00

cloth $80.00

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Africa and France

Postcolonial Cultures, Migration, and Racism

Dominic Thomas

ebook $23.99

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Africa's Hidden Histories

Everyday Literacy and Making the Self

Edited by Karin Barber

Paperback $29.95

cloth $75.00

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African Art and Agency in the Workshop

Edited by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir and Till Förster

Paperback $30.00

ebook $24.99

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African Art and the Colonial Encounter

Inventing a Global Commodity

Sidney Littlefield Kasfir

Paperback $27.95

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African Art, Interviews, Narratives

Bodies of Knowledge at Work

Edited by Joanna Grabski and Carol Magee

Paperback $28.00

cloth $80.00

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African Art, Interviews, Narratives

Bodies of Knowledge at Work

Edited by Joanna Grabski and Carol Magee

ebook $23.99

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Arrest the Music!

Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics

Tejumola Olaniyan

Paperback $19.95

cloth $45.00

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Arrest the Music!

Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics

Tejumola Olaniyan

ebook $15.95

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A Bird Dance near Saturday City

Sidi Ballo and the Art of West African Masquerade

Patrick R. McNaughton

Paperback $26.00

cloth $65.00

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Colonialism, Immigration, and Transnationalism

Dominic Thomas

Paperback $27.95

ebook $22.35

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Shaping Culture through Cloth in Contemporary Mali

Victoria L. Rovine

Paperback $24.95

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Contemporary African Fashion

Edited by Suzanne Gott and Kristyne Loughran, Foreword by Joanne B. Eicher

Paperback $27.95

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Dan Ge Performance

Masks and Music in Contemporary Côte d'Ivoire

Daniel B. Reed

Paperback $24.95

cloth $59.95

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A Dance of Assassins

Performing Early Colonial Hegemony in the Congo

Allen F. Roberts

Paperback $30.00

cloth $85.00

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A Dance of Assassins

Performing Early Colonial Hegemony in the Congo

Allen F. Roberts

ebook $25.99

Fashioning Africa

Power and the Politics of Dress

Edited by Jean Allman

ebook $17.55

Paperback $21.95

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Global Nollywood

The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry

Edited by Matthias Krings and Onookome Okome

Paperback $30.00

cloth $80.00

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Global Nollywood

The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry

Edited by Matthias Krings and Onookome Okome

ebook $24.99

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Highlife Saturday Night

Popular Music and Social Change in Urban Ghana

Nate Plageman

Paperback $28.00

cloth $80.00

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Highlife Saturday Night

Popular Music and Social Change in Urban Ghana

Nate Plageman

ebook $23.99

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New African Music in a Globalizing World

Edited by Eric Charry

Paperback $35.00

cloth $90.00

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New African Music in a Globalizing World

Edited by Eric Charry

ebook $29.99

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Journey of Song

Public Life and Morality in Cameroon

Clare A. Ignatowski

Paperback $24.95

cloth $65.00

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Journey of Song

Public Life and Morality in Cameroon

Clare A. Ignatowski

ebook $19.95

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Live from Dar es Salaam

Popular Music and Tanzania's Music Economy

Alex Perullo

Paperback $27.95

cloth $80.00

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The Masons of Djenné

Trevor H. J. Marchand

Paperback $29.95

cloth $75.00

Muslim Women Sing

Hausa Popular Song

Beverly B. Mack

Paperback $27.95

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New Francophone African and Caribbean Theatres

John Conteh-Morgan with Dominic Thomas

Paperback $24.95

cloth $70.00

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New Francophone African and Caribbean Theatres

John Conteh-Morgan with Dominic Thomas

ebook $21.20

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Osogbo and the Art of Heritage

Monuments, Deities, and Money

Peter Probst

Paperback $24.95

cloth $70.00

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Performance and Politics in Tanzania

The Nation on Stage

Laura Edmondson

Paperback $24.95

cloth $65.00

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Performance and Politics in Tanzania

The Nation on Stage

Laura Edmondson

ebook $21.20

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Performing South Africa's Truth Commission

Stages of Transition

Catherine M. Cole

Paperback $28.00

cloth $65.00

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The Politics of Dress in Somali Culture

Heather Marie Akou

Paperback $24.95

cloth $70.00

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Portraiture and Photography in Africa

Edited by John Peffer and Elisabeth L. Cameron

(Not yet available)

$35.00

(Not yet available)

$29.99

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Postcolonial Artists and Global Aesthetics

Akin Adesokan

Paperback $24.95

cloth $70.00

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Postcolonial Artists and Global Aesthetics

Akin Adesokan

ebook $20.99

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Prince Twins Seven-Seven

His Art, His Life in Nigeria, His Exile in America

Henry Glassie

cloth $39.95

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Arts for Mami Wata and Other Divinities in Africa and the Diaspora

Edited by Henry John Drewal

cloth $75.00

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Sàngó in Africa and the African Diaspora

Edited by Joel E. Tishken, Toyin Falola, and Akintunde Akinyemi

Paperback $27.95

cloth $75.00

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Color, Substances, and Ritual Applications on African Sculpture

Edited by Leonard Kahan, Donna Page, and Pascal James Imperato in collaboration with Charles Bordogna and Bolaji Campbell, Introduction by Patrick McNaughton

cloth $75.00

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Tabloid Journalism in South Africa

True Story!

Herman Wasserman

Paperback $24.95

cloth $65.00

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Tabloid Journalism in South Africa

True Story!

Herman Wasserman

ebook $21.20

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Veiling in Africa

Edited by Elisha P. Renne

Paperback $28.00

cloth $80.00

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Veiling in Africa

Edited by Elisha P. Renne

ebook $23.99