Florian Carl
Biographic Data
| ID | 1457585 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Florian Carl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Florian |
| FAMILY NAME | Carl |
| SIGNATURE | CARL F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Coast |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-1758-1022 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Resisting Divides
Like roots reaching for the nourishment of familiar ground, generations of resistance lineages continue to weave a worldwide tapestry of solidarity. These efforts help to disrupt various forms of colonial violence, including under the guise of liberal democracies. One of the multiple mechanisms they target is how people and lands are pitted against one another through adversarial categories of difference. Such efforts are a powerful antidote to c…
Gospel Music in Africa
This chapter outlines the development of gospel music in Africa, highlighting particularly its interrelationship with the rise of neoliberalism since the 1980s. Carried by the proliferation of Pentecostal/charismatic Christianity, gospel has become the most pervasive popular music genre in Africa. Authors have noted a strong convergence between neo-Pentecostalism and neoliberalism, both worshipping prosperity, wealth accumulation, and capitalist …
Worshipping in My Head”
Taking as a starting point the premise that listening is a historically and socially constituted practice, in this article I examine ways of listening as an integral part of everyday devotional practices among Ghanaian Christians. My specific interest is in how technologically mediated practices of
Kinka
Kinka: Traditional Songs from Avenorpedo. 2007. Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology, Department of Music, University of Alberta. Recorded by Gavin Webb and Godwin Yao Azameti. Annotated by Michael Frishkopf and Carinna Friesen. Produced by Michael Frishkopf. 40-page booklet and website (http://www.ualberta.ca/-michaelf/kinkadrum/Home.html) with notes in English and Eve. Translations by Norvor and Godwin Yao Azameti, Colour, b/w photographs, map, …
The Ritualization of the Self in Ghanaian Gospel Music
One of the most intriguing trends in current popular culture in Ghana and its diaspora is the blurring of boundaries between the secular and the sacred realms. Fostered by the liberalization of the Ghanaian media sector in 1992 and the appropriation of media technology by the Charismatic churches
From Burger Highlife to Gospel Highlife
This chapter deals with music in the context of Ghanaian migration, with a particular focus on the Ghanaian diaspora in Germany that emerged over the course of the past three to four decades. Germany constitutes one of the preferred destinations of Ghanaian migrants in Western Europe and it assumed a prominent role in the production of Ghanaian popular music in the 1980s and 1990s. In the following discussion, two diff erent, though interrelated,…
The Representation and Performance of African Music in German Popular Culture
Africa constituted a vivid part of the popular European imagination as early as the nineteenth century. Fascinated by travel accounts and adventure novels and, towards the end of the nineteenth century, by ethnographic shows and colonial exhibitions, audiences in Europe followed with great interest the "scramble for Africa," with its spectacular discoveries on the periphery of the expanding colonial empires, just as people marvelled at the images…
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The Representation and Performance of African Music in German Popular Culture
Africa constituted a vivid part of the popular European imagination as early as the nineteenth century. Fascinated by travel accounts and adventure novels and, towards the end of the nineteenth century, by ethnographic shows and colonial exhibitions, audiences in Europe followed with great interest the "scramble for Africa," with its spectacular discoveries on the periphery of the expanding colonial empires, just as people marvelled at the images…
From Burger Highlife to Gospel Highlife
This chapter deals with music in the context of Ghanaian migration, with a particular focus on the Ghanaian diaspora in Germany that emerged over the course of the past three to four decades. Germany constitutes one of the preferred destinations of Ghanaian migrants in Western Europe and it assumed a prominent role in the production of Ghanaian popular music in the 1980s and 1990s. In the following discussion, two diff erent, though interrelated,…
The Ritualization of the Self in Ghanaian Gospel Music
One of the most intriguing trends in current popular culture in Ghana and its diaspora is the blurring of boundaries between the secular and the sacred realms. Fostered by the liberalization of the Ghanaian media sector in 1992 and the appropriation of media technology by the Charismatic churches
Kinka
Kinka: Traditional Songs from Avenorpedo. 2007. Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology, Department of Music, University of Alberta. Recorded by Gavin Webb and Godwin Yao Azameti. Annotated by Michael Frishkopf and Carinna Friesen. Produced by Michael Frishkopf. 40-page booklet and website (http://www.ualberta.ca/-michaelf/kinkadrum/Home.html) with notes in English and Eve. Translations by Norvor and Godwin Yao Azameti, Colour, b/w photographs, map, …
Worshipping in My Head”
Taking as a starting point the premise that listening is a historically and socially constituted practice, in this article I examine ways of listening as an integral part of everyday devotional practices among Ghanaian Christians. My specific interest is in how technologically mediated practices of
Gospel Music in Africa
This chapter outlines the development of gospel music in Africa, highlighting particularly its interrelationship with the rise of neoliberalism since the 1980s. Carried by the proliferation of Pentecostal/charismatic Christianity, gospel has become the most pervasive popular music genre in Africa. Authors have noted a strong convergence between neo-Pentecostalism and neoliberalism, both worshipping prosperity, wealth accumulation, and capitalist …
Resisting Divides
Like roots reaching for the nourishment of familiar ground, generations of resistance lineages continue to weave a worldwide tapestry of solidarity. These efforts help to disrupt various forms of colonial violence, including under the guise of liberal democracies. One of the multiple mechanisms they target is how people and lands are pitted against one another through adversarial categories of difference. Such efforts are a powerful antidote to c…
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