Transcultural Connections

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" Transcultural Connections "
Abdalla Uba Adamu

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1063518
Doc. No	:	LA107147
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15692108-12341373‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Abdalla Uba Adamu
Title & Author	:	Transcultural Connections [Article]\ Abdalla Uba Adamu
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	African and Asian Studies
Date	:	2017
Volume/ Issue Number	:	16/1-2
Page No	:	103–127
Abstract	:	The virtual addiction of Muslim Hausa youth to Indian films has a long history, which stretched to the first Indian films screen in northern Nigerian cinemas in the 1960s. The cultural convergence between what the Hausa see as representations of Indian cultural behavior – in terms of social mores, dressing, social interaction – all served to create what they perceive as a convergence between Indian ‘culure’ and Muslim Hausa culture. This paper traces the evolutionary attachment of the Hausa to Indian films and culture. In particular, it traces the various ways through Hausa youth use various devices to adopt, or adapt Indian popoular culture to suit their own re-worked creative pursuits. As a study of transnational fandom, it provides vital insight into how cultural spaces are collapsed, despite spatial and religious spaces.
Descriptor	:	African Studies
Descriptor	:	Asian Studies
Descriptor	:	fandom
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	Hausa
Descriptor	:	Kanywood
Descriptor	:	Muslim
Descriptor	:	northern Nigeria
Descriptor	:	Shah Ruk Khan
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15692108-12341373‬