SOSC 4510 Chapter Notes - Chapter --: Karen Barber, Egungun, Frankfurt School
23 Feb 2016
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Karen barber, introduction in barbar (textbook 1): pages 1- 12. Despite the overwhelming reality of economic decline, imaginable poverty, wars, malnutrition, disease and political instability, african cultural productivity grows apace: popular literatures, oral narrative and poetry, dance, drama, music and visual art all thrive. It is not wholly traditional in the sense given to this term by much africanist scholarship that is purely oral, expressed in exclusively indigenous african languages or images and coming from or alluding to the precolonial past. The african cultural universe is often represented as being divided into two halves made up of egungun masquerades on the one hand (traditional art) and soyinkas the road on the other (elite/modernized/westernized art) Popular music was one of the rst african arts to be seriously studied in which ethnomusicologists deplored the contamination of authentic igneous traditional sounds by the infusion of western rhythms, melodies and technologies. People know africa by traditional carvings and westernized african novels and plays.
