Leisure and society in colonial Brazzaville / Phyllis M. Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Phyllis, author.

Series:

African studies series ; 87.

African studies series ; 87

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leisure--Congo (Brazzaville)--History.

Leisure.

Congo (Brazzaville)--Social life and customs.

Congo (Brazzaville).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 278 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Leisure & Society in Colonial Brazzaville

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book, Phyllis Martin, a well-known Africanist scholar, opens up a whole new field of African research: the leisure activities of urban Africans. Her comprehensive study, set in colonial Brazzaville and based on a wide variety of written sources and interviews, investigates recreational activities from football and fashion to music, dance and night life. In it, she brings out the ways in which these activities built social networks, humanised daily life and forged new identities, and explains how they ultimately helped to remake older traditions and values with new cultural forms.

Contents:

1. An African crossroads, a frontier post and a colonial town, c. 1880-1915 2. Taking hold of the town, c. 1915-1960 3. The emergence of leisure 4. Football is king 5. About the town 6. Dressing well 7. High society

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-272) and index.

ISBN:

9780511093029

0511093020

9780511887963

0511887965

9780511584756

051158475X

Publisher Number:

2027/heb02629 hdl