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Author Adesokan, Akinwumi, author.

Title Everything is sampled : digital and print mediations in African arts and letters / Akin Adeṣọkan
Published Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 371 pages) : color illustrations
Contents Introduction: The New Terrains of African Arts and Letters -- Shifting Margins -- Modes of Creative Practice -- Spatial Assemblages: Festivals as Curation -- Across the Digital Divide -- The Griot's Compositions in Time -- Adaptation or Remake: New Formats for Old Prints -- Approaching the World as Platform, Literally -- The Remix: Of New Identities and Technologies of Reuse -- Epilogue: In Relative Account
Summary "Everything Is Sampled examines the shifting modes of production and circulation of African artistic forms since the 1980s, focusing on digital culture as the most currently decisive setting for these changes. Drawing on works of cinema, literature, music, and visual art, Akin Adesokan addresses two main questions. First, given the various changes that the institutions producing African arts and letters have undergone in the past four decades, how have the representational impulses in these forms fared in comparison with those at work in pervasively digital cultures? Second, how might a long view of these artistic forms across media and in different settings affect our understanding of what counts as art, as text, as authorship? Immersed in digital culture, African artists today are acutely aware of the media-saturated circumstances in which they work and actively bridge them by making ethical choices to shape those circumstances. Through an innovative development and analysis of five modes of creative practice-curation, composition, adaptation, formatting, and remix-Everything Is Sampled offers an absorbingly complex yet nuanced approach to appreciating the work of several generations of African writers, directors, and artists. No longer content to just fill a spot in the relay between the conception and distribution of a work, these artists are now also quick to view and reconfigure their works through different modes of creative practice"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 20, 2023)
Subject Arts, African -- 20th century
Arts, African -- 21st century
Appropriation (Arts) -- Africa
Digital media -- Africa
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
Appropriation (Arts)
Arts, African
Digital media
Africa
Genre/Form Art criticism.
Critiques d'art.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022042836
ISBN 0253065674
9780253065681
0253065682
9780253065674
Other Titles Digital and print mediations in African arts and letters