In this book, Phyllis Martin, a well-known Africanist scholar, opens up a whole new field of African research: the leisure activities of urban Africans. Her comprehensive study, set in colonial Brazzaville and based on a wide variety of written sources and interviews, investigates recreational activities from football and fashion to music, dance and night life. In it, she brings out the ways in which these activities built social networks, humanised daily life and forged new identities, and explains how they ultimately helped to remake older traditions and values with new cultural forms.
| ISBN: | 9780521524469 |
| Publication date: | 8th August 2002 |
| Author: | Phyllis Indiana University Martin |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 296 pages |
| Series: | African Studies |
| Genres: |
African history Social and cultural history |
In this book, Phyllis Martin, a well-known Africanist scholar, opens up a whole new field of African research: the leisure activities of urban Africans. Her comprehensive study, set in colonial Brazzaville and based on a wide variety of written sources and interviews, investigates recreational activities from football and fashion to music, dance and night life. In it, she brings out the ways in which these activities built social networks, humanised daily life and forged new identities, and explains how they ultimately helped to remake older traditions and values with new cultural forms.
Leisure and Society in Colonial Brazzaville features in the following genres: African history, Social and cultural history
Leisure and Society in Colonial Brazzaville is available in Paperback
Leisure and Society in Colonial Brazzaville was written by Phyllis Indiana University Martin and published by Cambridge University Press
Leisure and Society in Colonial Brazzaville has 296 pages
Yes it is part of African Studies series
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