Poetry, Prose and Popular Culture in Hausa.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Note on transcription -- Note on texts and translations -- Maps -- Introduction -- Hausa society and aspects of Nigerian history -- Language, culture and identity -- Chapter 1 The Architecture of literature and the interplay of voices -- Popular and specialised culture, incorporative and exclusive tendencies -- Communication media and the development of artistic forms -- Speaking and writing, proposing and answering -- Perceptions of genre -- Literature and the nature of Hause society -- Chapter 2 Imaginativee prose-writing -- The first Hausa novels: Abubakar Imam and the writing of Ruwan Bagaja -- Gandoki, Shaihu Umar and the other early novels -- Descendant of the 1934 vintage -- The early 1950s -- Circa 1970: 1934 revisited -- The 1980s and the boomtown novels -- Publishing in Hausa and recent devlopments: love stories -- Chapter 3 Oral narratives: Tatsuniya 'the tale and other prose forms -- Hausa terminology in relation to narrative -- Tatsuniya: narrative content and the patterns of stories -- Patterns and models -- Attitudes to Tatsuniyoyi -- Tales as an arena of contestation -- Trickster -- Chapter 4 Short-form verbal art -- Hausa terminology in relation to 'short-form verbal art' -- Karin magana -- Kirari and take -- Interactive genres: tatsuniya as riddle and the brain teaser -- Chapter 5 Theatre and Mimesis -- TV and radio drama -- Drama societies and scripted plays -- Community theatre and development theatre -- Theatricality in bori -- Popular entertainers -- 'Yan kama -- 'Yan gambara -- Wawan sarki: the emir's fool -- Mimetic performance occasions in the Hausa calendar -- Wasan gauta and kalankuwa -- Tashe -- Chapter 6 Song and freelance popular singers -- Freelance and 'tied' singers -- The functions of song -- Distinguishing between song and poetry -- Refrains and choruses.

Performance styles among freelance singers -- The relation between words and music: linguistic tone and melody -- The relation between words and music rhythm and syllables -- Freelance popular singers -- Chapter 7 Tied singers, singers for combatants, farmers and emirs -- Singing for combatants -- Singing for farmers -- Court praise-singing -- Symbols and allegiances -- Chapter 8 Poetry: form and background -- 1830, The Sokoto river valley and a new experience -- Poetry for a purpose -- Jihad poetry -- Poetic form -- Chapter 9 Modern Hausa poetry -- Purposive poetry: politics and society -- Purposive poetry: 'the right path' -- Modern religious poetry -- Topical and narrative poetry -- Poetry on contemporary social issues -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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