Steven James Salm (Xavier University, New Orleans, Louisiana)

Submitted:  Thu, 12 Aug 2004


Steven James Salm
Assistant Professor
Department of History
Xavier University of Louisiana
1 Drexel Drive
New Orleans, Louisiana  70125  USA

phone:  504.520.5272
fax:    504.520.7938
e-mail: sjsalm@xula.edu


Web-page: http://www.xula.edu/history/faculty.html



Research interests:
Countries: Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa; and topics: Urban history, 
youth culture, popular culture, Atlantic World, Globalization


Publications:

African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspectives, Rochester: University of
Rochester Press (forthcoming).

African Urban Cultures, Durham: Carolina Academic Press (forthcoming, fall
2004).

Globalization and Urbanization in Africa, Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press
(2004), pp. xii, 294.

Nigerian Cities, Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press (2004), pp. xii, 396.

"'Down on River Road': Popular Music, Identity, and the Lumpen Youth of
Nairobi," in African Urban Cultures, Salm, Steven J. and Toyin Falola
(eds.), Durham: Carolina Academic Press (forthcoming, fall 2004).

Culture and Customs of Ghana, Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing (2002)
(co-authored with Toyin Falola), pp. ix+234.

"'Rain or Shine We Gonna Rock': Dance Subcultures and Identity Construction
in Accra, Ghana," in African Historical Research: Sources and Methods, Toyin
Falola and Christian Jennings (eds.), Rochester, University of Rochester
Press (2003), 361-375.

"Popular/Urban Culture," in African History and Culture, Vol. 5: Since
Independence, Toyin Falola (ed.), Durham: Carolina Academic Press (2003),
657-679.

"Cities and Urban Life," in African History and Culture, Vol. 4,
1939-present, Toyin Falola (ed.), Durham: Carolina Academic Press (2002),
223-248.

"Culture and Society," in African History and Culture, Vol. 3, 1880-1939,
Toyin Falola (ed.), Durham: Carolina Academic Press (2002), 201-218.

"The Circumference of Two Worlds:  History and Identity in the West Indian
Writer," Paisano, Vol. 2, spring (2000).

"African Literatures," in Africa, Vol. 2:  African Societies and Cultures
Before 1885, Toyin Falola (ed.), Durham: Carolina Academic Press (2000),
285-302.

"African Music," in Africa, Vol. 2:  African Societies and Cultures Before
1885, Toyin Falola (ed.), Durham: Carolina Academic Press (2000), 265-284.

"Islam," in Africa, Vol. 2:  African Societies and Cultures Before 1885,
Toyin Falola (ed.), Durham: Carolina Academic Press (2000), 107-128.

"Swahili Women Since the Nineteenth Century:  Theoretical and Empirical
Considerations on Gender and Identity Construction," (with Rebecca Gower and
Toyin Falola), Africa Today, 43, 3 (1996), 251-268.

"Music in Postcolonial Africa," in Encyclopedia of African History, Kevin
Shillington (ed.) (forthcoming, September 2004, New York: Routledge).

"Alcohol: Popular Culture and Colonial Control," in Encyclopedia of African
History, Kevin Shillington (ed.) (forthcoming, September 2004, New York:
Routledge).

"The Journal of James Watt," Mouser, James, (review) African Economic
History, 24, 1996, 163-164.

"Wonschenswert, aber von Geringem Nutzen," (with Toyin Falola), der
Überblick, (2 June 1996), 46-48.