Africa and the media: changing aspects of communication (a working bibliography)
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Abstract
INTRODUCTION:
Each year the annual meeting of the African Studies Association has
a general theme, on which a major portion of the panels are presented. The
Bibliography Sub-committee of the Archives-Libraries Committee of ASA has
unqertaken the project of preparing a working bibliography on the theme
of each year's annual meeting.
The theme of the 1979 meeting, "Africa and the Media: Changing Aspects
of Communication", is broad in its scope, challenging and exciting in its
impact, and particularly well-suited for a survey of the literature.
There is a great deal written about communication and media in and about
Africa, in a variety of sources. This bibliography will attempt to pull
some of the available sources together, to indicate continuing sources of
information, and to mention projects which are in progress or in planning
stages.
A working paper presents, in a preliminary format, ideas and information
for comment and criticism. It is a starting point for a more finished and
polished piece of work. A working bibliography is essentially the same kind
of preliminary production, a starting point for further work on the part of
individual scholars. Obviously it is not an exhaustive survey of the state
of the art.
The bibliography will address two aspects of the theme: (1) Africa
in United States and World Media and (2) Media in Africa. Types of media
to be covered are the press, broadcasting, theatre, cinema, publishing
and educational media. The approximate cutoff date was set at 1970. Most
citations were noted at Boston University, Library of Congress, Northwestern
University, Univensity of Illinois and Yale University. The coordinating
editor will attempt to supply location information for interlibrary loan
or consultation. Since some citations have been obtained from indexing
services, locations in the United States cannet necessarily be guaranteed.
Description
African Studies Center Working Paper No. 17
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Copyright © 1979, by the author.