Afrobeats: Understanding the global success of a West African popular music form
Dozent:innen: Rashid JeduahKurzname: Afrobeats
Kurs-Nr.: 07.798.22_035
Kurstyp: Seminar
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
Discussions will be accompanied by light empirical tasks, therefore willingness to participate in these tasks is required. Students should also be willing to attend lessons, read texts beforehand, and engage in discussions and presentations.Papers can only be accepted written in english.
Empfohlene Literatur
Krings, Matthias, and Tom Simmert. "African Popular Culture Enters the Global Mainstream." Current History 119.817 (2020): 182-187.Salm, Steven J. "Globalization and West African Music." History Compass 8.12 (2010): 1328-1339.
Collins, John. "The early history of West African highlife music." Popular Music 8.3 (1989): 221-230.
Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity at large: Cultural dimensions of globalization. Vol. 1. U of Minnesota Press, 1996.
Inhalt
Afrobeats music has led to the likes of Burna Boy and Wizkid receiving Grammy Awards, global superstars like Beyonce and Chris Brown making Afrobeats records, and the remixing of Nigerian songs with pop stars like Justin Bieber, Drake, and Selena Gomez. Its global success was further solidified when the recent American Music Awards added a ‘Favourite Afrobeats Artist’ category to its lineup. While a lot of the global popular music genres trace their roots to African traditional music rhythms by way of the Transatlantic slave trade, African popular music has been largely ignored in the global music scene. Occasionally, African musicians would get recognition either when they were nominated in the World music category at the Grammy Awards, or one of their songs went viral, for example Manu Dibango’s ‘Soul Makossa’ and its influence on the development of the disco era. However, with the emergence of Afrobeats, this trend is changing. In this seminar we will delve into the development of Afrobeats as a West African popular music form, looking at its historical development from Nigerian and Ghanaian popular music, which themselves developed in conjunction with the diaspora. We will also discuss its transnational movement to other parts of Africa, as well as the incorporation of other regional African music forms such as Amapiano. Drawing from Anthropology of the digital and the global, we will engage with Afrobeats as a West African music form that is spreading to the global music space, paying particular attention to the role of digital spaces such as social media cultural production in this development. This seminar seeks to introduce the digital as a place for Anthropological studies of Africans and African popular culture, especially in these times when the online and offline worlds are very much intertwined. It further seeks to put African voices and African popular culture at the centre of discussions of cultural appropriation, race relations, and popular culture.Termine
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| 18.04.2023 (Dienstag) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 01 715 HS 14 1111 - Hauptgebäude |
| 25.04.2023 (Dienstag) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 01 715 HS 14 1111 - Hauptgebäude |
| 02.05.2023 (Dienstag) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 01 715 HS 14 1111 - Hauptgebäude |
| 09.05.2023 (Dienstag) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 01 715 HS 14 1111 - Hauptgebäude |
| 16.05.2023 (Dienstag) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 01 715 HS 14 1111 - Hauptgebäude |
| 23.05.2023 (Dienstag) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 01 715 HS 14 1111 - Hauptgebäude |
| 30.05.2023 (Dienstag) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 01 715 HS 14 1111 - Hauptgebäude |
| 06.06.2023 (Dienstag) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 01 715 HS 14 1111 - Hauptgebäude |
| 13.06.2023 (Dienstag) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 01 715 HS 14 1111 - Hauptgebäude |
| 20.06.2023 (Dienstag) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 01 715 HS 14 1111 - Hauptgebäude |
| 27.06.2023 (Dienstag) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 01 715 HS 14 1111 - Hauptgebäude |
| 04.07.2023 (Dienstag) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 01 715 HS 14 1111 - Hauptgebäude |
| 11.07.2023 (Dienstag) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 01 715 HS 14 1111 - Hauptgebäude |
| 18.07.2023 (Dienstag) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 01 715 HS 14 1111 - Hauptgebäude |