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Tells the history of the Bloomington Old-Time Music and Dance Group - how it was formed, how it evolved its unique culture, and how it grew to shape and influence waves of traditional music and dance.

Tom Young teaches politics and international relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Tom Young teaches politics and international relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Images and stories about African sexuality abound in todayΓÇÖs globalized media. Frequently old stereotypes and popular opinion inform these stories, and sex in the media is predominately approached as a problem in need of solutions and intervention. The authors gathered here refuse an easy characterization of African sexuality and instead seek to understand the various erotic realities, sexual practices, and gendered changes taking place across the continent. They present a nuanced and comprehensive overview of the field of sex and sexuality in Africa to serve as a guide though the quickly expanding literature. This collection offers a set of texts that use sexuality as a prism for studying how communities coalesce against the canvas of larger political and economic contexts and how personal lives evolve therein. Scholars working in Africa, the U.S., and Europe reflect on issues of representation, health and bio-politics, same-sex relationships and identity, transactional economies of sex, religion and tradition, and the importance of pleasure and agency. This multidimensional reader provides a comprehensive view of sexuality from an African perspective.

1. Images and narratives of African sexuality have a long origin in stereotype. This volume aims to present a multidimensional view of sex and sexuality on the African continent. 2. Spronk and Hendriks are up-and-coming scholars with interests in anthropology, ethnography, and sexuality in Africa. 3. IUP has a long-standing relationship with the International African Institute to produce a series of textbooks comprised of previously published material about various topics of current interest to Africanist students and scholars. This book is a part of that series and will find an audience with Africanist scholars in humanities and social science disciplines interested in questions surrounding sex and sexuality.

Readings in African Politics provides an overview of key topics andthemes that collectively contribute to an understanding of politics in Africa. Theselections included here come from a wide range of Western and non-Western sourcesand together represent core knowledge in the field of African politics. Topic areascovered are methods for appraising the modern African state, approaches tounderstanding African states and their politics, dimensions of regional conflict, conflict between traditional and modern values, the politics of new social forces, and the meaning of contemporary trends. An introductory essay by Tom Young sketchesthe terrain of politics in Africa from national and international efforts towarddevelopment to local problems such as corruption and ethnic conflict. Readers at alllevels will find even-handed coverage of politics in sub-Saharan Africa's more than30 states from the early years of independence to today.