Yorùbá Ẹ Ronú

Tradition, Youth and Cultural Citizenship in Túndé Kèlání's Films

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2173240
AutoresYing Cheng (0000-0001-7732-9806, Asian and African Languages and Literatures, Peking University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China)
Año2020
Volumen32
Número4
Páginas382-399
Fecha de publicación2020-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of African Cultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1369-6815 • E-ISSN: 1469-9346
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13696815.2020.1732884
OpenAlexW3015991071
IdiomaVI
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas21

The article analyses and reflects on the intergenerational relationship between Yorùbá performance traditions, Túndé Kèlání's films and contemporary youth theatrical practices in Nigeria. I focus on the engagement of youth in the production of some of Kèlání's well-known video films and explore how these works participate in the generation of a new public in the new social context. Based on an examination of Túndé Kèlání's collaboration with Crown Troupe of Africa, a Lagos-based youth street theatre troupe, the article suggests that, rather than a 'degeneration' of popular performance culture, contemporary video culture in Nigeria has continuously recycled the prevalent political morality derived from earlier performance genres, and constitutes a crucial site of youth mobilisation and activism in contemporary Nigeria

Aesthetics · Art · Citizenship · Context (archaeology · Media studies · Morality · Political science · Politics · Popular culture · Sociology · Youth culture · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · Cinema and Media Studies · South Asian Cinema and Culture · Gender Studies · History · Law