Popular and the Public: Cultural Debates and Struggles Over Public Space in Modern India, Africa and Europe edited by Preben Kaarshola and Isabel hofmeyr

1. Popular Cultural Materials and Public Spheres: Perspectives from India, Africa and Europe by Isabel Hofmeyr and Preben Kaarsholm 2. Archive as Work-in-Progress by Karin Barber and PF de Moraes Farias 3. Constructing the Popular: Challenges of Archiving Ugandan 'Popular' Music by Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza 4. 'From War Cacophonies to Rhythms of Peace': Popular Cultural Music in Post-1986 Uganda by Richard Ssewakiryanga and Joel Isabirye 5. Songs of War and Peace: Popular Song as Commentary, Mediation and Critique of the War in Northern Uganda by Okello Ogwang 6. Archive and Experience by Ashish Rajadhyaksha 7. Contesting Indian Islam in KwaZulu-Natal: The Muharram Festival in Durban, 2002 by Goolam Vahed 8. Culture as Cure: Civil Society and Moral Debates in KwaZulu-Natal after Apartheid by Preben Kaarsholm 9. Calcutta's Battala Books in Nineteenth-Century Bengali Popular Culture by Sumanta Banerjee 10. Appropriating Realism: The Transformation of Popular Visual Iconography in Late-Nineteenth-Century Calcutta by Kamalika Mukherjee11. Danish Orientalism by Martin Zerlang12. Books in Heaven: Dreams, Texts and Conspicuous Circulation by Isabel Hofmeyr13. Writing, Self-Realization and Community: Henry Muoria and the Creation of a Nationalist Public Sphere in Kenya by Bodil Folke Frederiksen 14. An Equal Right to the City: Contests over Cultural Space in Calcutta by Partha Chatterjee Notes on Contributors Index

Examines how popular culture has shaped the public sphere, providing an alternative space for political debate in 19th and 20th Century India, Africa and Europe. This title includes case studies on competition between Christians, Muslims and Traditionalists within public culture in Nigeria, and popular music and songs of war and peace in Uganda