[Commlist] New Publications: Two Edited Volumes on Indigenous African Popular Music

Two edited volumes on indigenous African popular music have just been 
published by Springer Nature/Palgrave Macmillan.

The first volume titled */Indigenous//African Popular Music: Prophets 
and Philosophers/*explores the nature, philosophies and genres of 
indigenous African popular music, focusing on how indigenous African 
popular music artistes are seen as prophets and philosophers, and how 
indigenous African popular music depicts the world. Indigenous African 
popular music has long been under-appreciated in communication 
scholarship. However, understanding the nature and philosophies of 
indigenous African popular music reveals an untapped diversity which can 
only be unraveled by knowledge of the myriad cultural backgrounds from 
which its genres originate. Indigenous African popular musicians have 
become repositories of indigenous cultural traditions and cosmologies. 
With a particular focus on scholarship from Nigeria, Zimbabwe and South 
Africa, this volume explores the work of these pioneering artists and 
their protégés who are resiliently sustaining, recreating and 
popularising indigenous popular music in their respective African 
communities, and at the same time propagating the communal views about 
African philosophies and the temporal and spiritual worlds in which they 
exist.

More details about the volume can be found here: 
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-97884-6 
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-97884-6>

The second volume titled */Indigenous African Popular Music: Social 
Crusades/*and the Future examines how African indigenous popular music 
is deployed in democracy, politics and for social crusades by African 
artists. Exploring the role of indigenous African popular music in 
environmental health communication and gender empowerment, it 
subsequently focuses on how the music portrays the African future, its 
use by African youths, and how it is affected by advanced broadcast 
technologies and the digital media. Indigenous African popular music has 
long been under-appreciated in communication scholarship. However, 
understanding the nature and philosophies of indigenous African popular 
music reveals an untapped diversity which can only be unraveled by the 
knowledge of myriad cultural backgrounds from which its genres 
originate. With a particular focus on scholarship from Nigeria, Zimbabwe 
and South Africa, this volume explores how, during the colonial period 
and post-independence dispensation, indigenous African music genres and 
their artists were mainstreamed in order to tackle emerging issues, to 
sensitise Africans about the affairs of their respective nations and to 
warn African leaders who have failed and are failing African citizenry 
about the plight of the people.

At the same time, indigenous African popular music genres have served as 
a beacon to the teeming African youths to express their dreams, 
frustrations about their environments and to represent themselves. This 
volume explores how, through the advent of new media technologies, 
indigenous African popular musicians have been working relentlessly for 
indigenous production, becoming champions of good governance, 
marginalised population, and repositories of indigenous cultural 
traditions and cosmologies.

More details about the volume can be found here: 
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-98705-3 
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-98705-3>


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