Everything Is Sampled: Digital and Print Mediations in African Arts and Letters
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Everything Is Sampled: Digital and Print Mediations in African Arts and Letters

Everything Is Sampled: Digital and Print Mediations in African Arts and Letters

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Akinwumi Adesokan (Author)  

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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 Adekan. 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. 12 Illustrations, color CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning -No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
Akin Adekan 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).
  • Contributor: Akinwumi Adesokan
  • Imprint: Indiana University Press
  • ISBN13: 9780253065650
  • Number of Pages: 392
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Indiana University Press
  • Release Date: 2023-03-28
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Akin Adekan 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).

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