[Commlist] New book: Everything Is Sampled by Akinwumi Adesokan

New book

*Everything Is Sampled***

Digital and Print Mediations in African Arts and Letters

*Akinwumi Adesokan***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9780253065667/everything-is-sampled/ 
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"/Everything Is Sampled/deploys the idea of production in deft and 
thoughtful manners to think together African arts, the integrity of the 
discrete aesthetic phenomenon, and the historical matrix within which 
aesthetic objects gain life. Everything Is Sampled adopts and rechannels 
terms implicated in the workings of text-making practices like curation, 
translation, media and modes (streaming technologies included), to 
establish patterns of changes and regularities in drama, film, video, 
poetry, and art installation. Individuals interested in lucid cultural 
analysis ought to find the eminently accessible style of presentation 
very appealing."*—Adeleke Adeeko, Ohio State University*

"/Everything Is Sampled/will make significant contributions to African 
literary and cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and world 
literature studies. It's central objects of analysis extend over an 
impressively wide range of artistic productions in sub-Saharan Africa, 
from the mid twentieth-century to the contemporary moment of 
globalization and digital culture. This unusual capaciousness is risky 
but exciting. Adesokan's work takes on this ambitious task with a flair 
that is at once substantive and stylistic."*—Olakunle George, Brown 
University*

/Everything Is Sampled/examines the shifting modes of production and 
circulation of African artistic forms since the 1980s, focusing on 
digital culture as the most currently decisive setting for these changes.

Drawing on works of cinema, literature, music, and visual art, Akin 
Adesokan addresses two main questions. First, given the various changes 
that the institutions producing African arts and letters have undergone 
in the past four decades, how have the representational impulses in 
these forms fared in comparison with those at work in pervasively 
digital cultures? Second, how might a long view of these artistic forms 
across media and in different settings affect our understanding of what 
counts as art, as text, as authorship? Immersed in digital culture, 
African artists today are acutely aware of the media-saturated 
circumstances in which they work and actively bridge them by making 
ethical choices to shape those circumstances.

Through an innovative development and analysis of five modes of creative 
practice—curation, composition, adaptation, platform, and 
remix—Everything Is Sampled offers an absorbingly complex yet nuanced 
approach to appreciating the work of several generations of African 
writers, directors, and artists. No longer content to just fill a spot 
in the relay between the conception and distribution of a work, these 
artists are now also quick to view and reconfigure their works through 
different modes of creative practice.

*Akin Adesokan*is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and of 
Cinema and Media Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is 
editor (with Adeleke Adeeko) of /Celebrating D. O. Fagunwa: Aspects of 
African and World Literary History/and author of /Roots in the Sky and 
Postcolonial Artists and Global Aesthetics/(IUP).



*Indiana University Press**| April 2023 | 396pp | 9780253065667 | PB | 
£40.00**

*Price subject to change.

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