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Event Series: Digitales Afrikakolloquium WS 2021/22
Vortrag

The Afterlife of the First Wave: Covid-19 & African Popular Music

Appointment

Wed., Oct. 27, 2021
4:45pm - 6:15pm

Admission

free

Zugangsdaten:
https://hu-berlin.zoom.us/j/69675985512?pwd=ZGs2M244S1pQbHVIRmhxbnhVQjIyUT09

Meeting-ID: 696 7598 5512
Passwort: 324325

This talk examines the effect of African popular music during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. It underscores the vital role and potential that music could play in the ongoing information warfare against the virus. It emphasizes the need to think more critically about perception management in staving off the effect of anti-vaxxer discourses seeking to upend the effort at ending the continued spread of mutant variants worldwide. The presentation focuses its analysis on the lyrics, the soundscapes, and the sociolinguistic impact of African Popular Music in shaping thoughts about the pandemic across the continent.

Dr. Oladipupo Oyeleye is a Mendota Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on African Popular Music, Lyrics, and Afropolitanism with further interests in Black Diasporic Anglophone Literature; Cultural studies in African Digital Rhetoric, and Visual Arts.

Further information

Organizer: Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften
Speakers: Dr. Oladipupo Oyelele
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Susanne Gehrmann

Further information on the event's website

Contact

Prof. Dr. Susanne Gehrmann
Phone: 030 2093-66022
susanne.gehrmann@rz.hu-berlin.de