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| Kelly Michelle Askew | |
| Anthropology; African Studies | |
| University of Michigan | |
| USA | |
Academic Info
| cultural politics; popular music; postsocialism; East Africa | |
| performance; anthropology of music; media; cultural politics; nationalism; socialism/postsocialism; property rights; 1964 Zanzibar Revolution; Swahili studies; East Africa | |
| I direct the African Studies Center at the University of Michigan and have faculty appointments in the Department of Anthropology and the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies. | |
| BOOKS 2006 Editor (with M. Anne Pitcher), African Postsocialisms. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press. 2002 Editor (with Richard R. Wilk ), The Anthropology of Media: A Reader. London and Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers. 2002 Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. Co-published in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania by Kapsel Educational Publications. SELECTED ARTICLES/CHAPTERS 2009 “Musical Images and Imaginations: Tanzanian Music Videos.” Pp.208-217 in Media and Identity in Africa, edited by Kimani Njogu and John F. M. Middleton. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2006 (with John F. Kitime) “Popular Music Censorship in Tanzania.” Pp.137-156 in Popular Music Censorship in Africa, edited by Michael Drewett and Martin Cloonan. Aldershot, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2006 “Sung and Unsung: Musical Reflections on Postsocialist Tanzania,” Africa 76 (1): 15-43. 2006 “Images, Documentation, and Imagined Ethnography,” Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. 45, No. 1 (Winter 2006): 27-46. 2004 “Striking Samburu and a Mad Cow: Adventures in Anthropollywood.” Pp.31-68 in Off Stage/On Display: Intimacy and Ethnography in the Age of Public Culture, edited by Andrew Shryock. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. | |
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