John C. started following the work of Rosalind Hackett, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Religious Studies.
John C. started following the work of Jeb Card, Miami University, Anthropology.
Faculty Member, Anthropology
Liberal Arts
About
For the past two decades, my research has focused on African arts, music, and dance. I am particularly interested in the performance arts as mechanisms of collective memory, historiography, and the production of meaning in community life.
Since 2000, I have devoted my attention to Africa's enthusiastic and innovative embrace of digital media, which have made it possible for people of modest means to produce and distribute movies without foreign funding or dependence on the infrastructures of transnational media corporations. Most of this research focuses on the Nigerian video movie industry that has become popularly known as "Nollywood."
I am also mixed up in a few experimental projects in cultural production involving song, dance, and humor.
Contact Information
| Homepage: |
