Cinema Narration as Oral Performance: DJ Afro and East African Media Practices.
This article examines cinema narration in Kenya, a practice that involves artists known as DJs working with audiences in specific socio-cultural contexts. This study uses ethnographic methods to analyse the work of one such practitioner, DJ Afro, and the reflections on his performance by two sets of...
| Publicado en: | Journal of African Cultural Studies Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 6 - 22 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2025
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=182980725&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 182980725 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 13696815 36D jtl: Journal of African Cultural Studies issn: 13696815 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Mar2025 vid: 37 iid: 1 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 182980725 10.1080/13696815.2024.2339862 ppf: 6 ppct: 16 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T db: hlh ui: 182980725 – @attributes: type: P db: hlh ui: 182980725 tig: atl: Cinema Narration as Oral Performance: DJ Afro and East African Media Practices. aug: au: Waliaula, Solomon affil: Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany Department of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Department of Languages, Linguistics and Culture, Maasai Mara University, Narok, Kenya su: Popular culture Film genres Audience response Narration Folk art sug: subj: Popular culture Film genres Audience response Narration Folk art keyword: Cinema narration meta-imagery oral poetics popular arts fani za usimulizi sanaa pendwa taswira tunduizi usimulizi wa filamu Cinema narration meta-imagery oral poetics popular arts fani za usimulizi sanaa pendwa taswira tunduizi usimulizi wa filamu ab: This article examines cinema narration in Kenya, a practice that involves artists known as DJs working with audiences in specific socio-cultural contexts. This study uses ethnographic methods to analyse the work of one such practitioner, DJ Afro, and the reflections on his performance by two sets of audiences in Eldoret and Narok respectively. For this purpose, three Hindi films in DJ Afro's repertoire have been selected: Magadheera (2009, directed by S. S. Rajamouli), Bullet Raja (2013, directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia) and Shadow (2013, directed by Meher Ramesh). The choice is influenced by DJ Afro's audiences' responses to his narration and to the genre of the films. The analysis of DJ Afro's oral texts is done using relevant theories of oral performance and popular culture. The article makes two linked arguments. First, in Kenya, cinema narration has evolved into one of the genres of popular culture. Second, this performance may have been initially understood as translation of meaning for local audiences, but it also works as an oral narrative performance involving local performers and their audiences, and in this process the meanings produced are determined in relation to local texts and contexts. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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