Globalization, Oral Performance, and African Traditional Poetry

• Main Author: Na'Allah, Abdul-Rasheed (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Ethnology-Africa.; Africa-Politics and government.; Communication.; African literature.; African languages.; African Culture.; African Politics.; Development Communication.; African Literature.; African Languages.

This book discusses globalization trends and influences on traditional African oral literary performance and the direction that Ilorin oral art is forced to take by the changes of the twenty-first century electronic age. It seeks a new definition of contemporary African bourgeois in terms of their g...

Table of Contents:

• 1. African Art and the Crisis of Poverty and Social Divisions in a Global Era
• 2. Criticism of African Art and Literature
• 3. Ilorin Traditional Oral Art in the Context of Bourgeois Aesthetics
• 4. A Pact between the Writer and the Oral Performer
• 5. Conclusion.