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| Semester | Herbstsemester 2009 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Till Förster (till.foerster@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | Popular culture is a term that has been understood in many different ways. It can mean almost everything from fashion through soap operas to fine arts. The understanding and interpretation of popular varies accordingly. Some regard popular culture as an art of resistance of ordinary people against the high culture of the elites, other see it as a seductive face of mere consumerism. Still others understand it as a true mirror that reflects and dramatizes the feelings of ordinary people who thus express and comment their own experience of "real" life. Many of the more theoretical studies have implicitly or explicitly framed popular culture at the centre of the relationship between the economic and the cultural. The general questions are apparently simple but much more difficult to answer when examined more closely: How "popular" is popular culture? Under what conditions does it become a tool of domination or of resistance? The seminar thus starts with an examination of how the broad and ambivalent term of popular culture has been conceptualized by different scholars. Four topics will be addressed in more depth: Representation, identity, consumption and production. Papers in this section will analyse prominent publications and their contributions to these four general themes. The second part of the seminar revolves around fields of popular culture in urban societies, in particular in Africa: Language, literature, television, film, youth culture, advertisements, art, music, and sports. If required, the students may also choose other topics for their seminar papers. The questions that link the different fields are: How has the emerging popular culture in African cities reshaped the contours of everyday life? And how do audiences use popular culture and make sense of it? |
| Lernziele | Overview on theories about popular culture. Capacity to develop an approach to the analysis of popular culture with a special focus on Africa. |
| Literatur | Barber, Karin (ed.), Readings in African Popular Culture. Bloomington, IN: Indiana Univ. Pr., 1997 Du Gay, Paul, Production of Culture / Cultures of Production. London: Sage, 2006. Mbembe, Achille, On the Postcolony. Berkeley: Univ. of California Pr., 2002. Schroeder, Jonathan, Visual Consumption. London: Routledge, 2002. Storey, John, Cultural theory and popular culture: an introduction. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006. A comprehensive reading list will be provided on the website of the Institute of Social Anthropology by the end of May 2009. |
| Weblink | http://www.unibas-ethno.ch/studium/lehrv |
| Teilnahmebedingungen | Studierende im BA erst ab dem 5. Semester. Die Teilnehmerzahl ist beschränkt, die Plätze werden nach Anmeldedatum und Studienfachzugehörigkeit vergeben. Vorrang haben die Studierenden der Ethnologie und African Studies. Die Anmeldung erfolgt über ISIS. |
| Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung | www.isis.unibas.ch |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Modul Compléments de connaissance en histoire, culture et societé (Master Studiengang: Etudes françaises et francophones) Modul Sachthematische Fragestellungen der Ethnologie (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie) Modul Sachthemen der Ethnologie (Master Studienfach: Ethnologie) Modul Social Anthropology (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Wissenschaftliche Vertiefung (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Leistungsüberprüfung | The students are expected to write a short essay of 4 to 5 pages on one of the books discussed in the seminar and to submit it one week before their presentation. Full papers are due by December 31, 2009. |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Wiederholtes Belegen | nicht wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Ethnologisches Seminar |