The eroticization of bikutsi
Reclaiming female space through popular music and media
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10958143 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dennis M Rathnaw (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 48-68 |
| Publication date | 2010-11-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Music Journal of the International Library of African Music (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0065-4019 • E-ISSN: 2524-2741 |
| Publisher | Rhodes University (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.21504/amj.v8i4.1866 |
| OpenAlex | W1562320335 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
THis work examines the development of bikutsi from traditional song form to media, moral and cultural issue — a site of contestation between local media officials and an increasingly more internationally influenced and liberalized media. I analyze the experience of bikutsi as mediated by politics and external and internal views and consumption. As the Cameroonian media undergoes a process of democratization highly influenced by foreign media, local musicians and video artists become actors in a conflicted and uncertain environment. On the one hand are issues of nation-building and cultural development in the face of dominant foreign media, and on the other, the multitude of images, sounds and forms of popular culture people attach themselves to in their daily imaginings
Aesthetics · Art · Consumption (sociology · Democracy · Democratization · Face (sociological concept · Media consumption · Media studies · Multitude · Political science · Politics · Popular media · Social science · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · African history and culture studies · Law
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |