Media Culture and Performance in Kenya
Author | : Mitch Odero |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Communication and culture |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mitch Odero |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Communication and culture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kimani Njogu |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Civic leaders |
ISBN | : 9966724419 |
This book brings together essays which cover a number of key areas: Gender, Disability, Media, Sports, Literature, Religion, Land and Youth, Music. Through an examination of the situation in Kenya, the essays opens new ways of understanding forms of local.
Author | : Kimani Njogu |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9966724435 |
Getting Heard: (Re)claiming Performance Space is the third in a series of publications on art, culture and society released by Twaweza Communications. The aim is to bring to the fore conversations taking place in Kenya about identity, creativity, nationalism and the generation of knowledge. The series is also about the pursuit of freedom through arts, media and culture. In Getting Heard the performance space is shown to offer wider possibilities for knowledge creation. It shows that in post-colonial Africa political leaders have consistently performed over their subjects at local and national levels. There is discussion of: Kenya National Theatre, Story Telling, Radio Theatre, Translation, African Languages, Music, Media and Mungiki This volume opens a window to our understanding of post-colonial Africa through performances.
Author | : Kimani Njogu |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2007-06-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9966151079 |
Art, Culture and Society Vol 1 is the first in a series of books to be published by Twaweza Communications on the relationship between art and society, with special reference to Kenya. It is part of a cultural leadership initiative being undertaken by the organization through a reexamination of the arts as they are produced and studied. This volume brings together important reflections on the arts and is a major step in encouraging dialogue on the relationship between creativity and the human condition in the region. Significantly, it creates a space for university-based academics to engage in dialogue with artists and writers based outside institutions of higher learning. The conversations will bridge the gap between the two domains for knowledge production and enrich creative enterprise in Kenya, in theory and practice. As the essays in this collection show, the present global situation demands a way to conceptualise and theorise an ever growing cultural interconnectedness, sometimes manifested in art; and interconnectedness that draws from a myriad of cultures and experiences. Through the bridges of contact and cultural exchange distant images are mediated and brought closer to us. They are reinterpreted and modified. In the final analysis, culture is shown to be an important aspect of human creativity but separateness and boundedness is contested. Instead, culture is shown to be malleable and fluid. The essays bring in a new freshness to our reading of the creative arts coming out of Kenya.
Author | : Kimani Njogu |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2009-04-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0748635211 |
Studies of the media in Africa, incorporating both African and international perspectives, are few. The thirty papers collected here were presented at a seminar organised and hosted by the Kenya-based Twaweza Communications and the International African Institute in Nairobi in 2004. They demonstrate how media outlets are used to perpetuate, question or modify the unequal power relations between the North and the South. Focusing on east Africa, the papers include discussions of the construction of old and new social entities, as defined by class, gender, ethnicity, political and economic differences, wealth, poverty, cultural behaviour, language and religion. The authors illustrate how there is increasing control by local people of traditional and modern forms of media. Globalization is being countered by local responses, within the context of social and cultural identities. Essentially, the book describes the tensions between the global and the local, tensions not often discussed in media studies, thus pioneering new debates.
Author | : Gilbert Kipkoech |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781687915108 |
Using data collected from 206 participants, this country-specific study examines the relationship between media consumption and Kenya's political culture. Political scientists and communicators contend that political culture encompasses several aspects. In this study, only four aspects of a country's political orientations (culture) and its relationship with the media are examined (a) Political participation, (b) political trust, (c) patriotism, and (d) inter-ethnic attitudes. Drawing on past research, the study establishes a link between media use and political attitudes and behaviors of the Kenyan people, operationalized in the study as the political culture. While the literature is divided on whether the media is a mobilizing force that influences people's political attitudes and behaviors positively or negatively, this study shows that online media consumption is negatively correlated with political interest and participation, and TV viewing is also negatively correlated with political participation. Drawings have been made on these findings as well its theoretical, methodological, and practical implications.
Author | : Dina Ligaga |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2020-02-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1920033653 |
Women, visibility and morality in Kenyan popular media explores familiar constructions of femininity to assess ways in which it circulates in discourse, both stereotypically and otherwise. It assesses the meanings of such discourses and their articulations in various public platforms in Kenya. The book draws together theoretical questions on pre-convened scripts that contain or condition how women can circulate in public. The book asks questions about particular interpretations of womens bodies that are considered transgressive or unruly and why these bodies become significant symbolic sites for the generation of knowledge on morality and sexuality. The book also poses questions about genre and representations of femininity. The assertion made is that for knowledges of femininity to circulate effectively, they must be melodramatic, spectacular and scandalous. Ultimately, the book asks how such a theorisation of popular modes of representation enable a better understanding of the connections between gender, sexuality and violence in Kenya.
Author | : Murej Otieno Mak'Ochieng |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9788257803285 |
Author | : Wanja Kimani |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kimani Njogu |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2008-03-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 996602803X |
This book brings together essays which cover a number of key areas: Gender, Disability, Media, Sports, Literature, Religion, Land and Youth, Music. Through an examination of the situation in Kenya, the essays opens new ways of understanding forms of local