Bob W. White (Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada)

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Bob W. White
Département d'Anthropologie
Université de Montréal
C.P. 6128
Succursale Centre-Ville
Montréal, Québec
H3C 3J7
Canada 

phone:  (514) 343-7329
fax:    (514) 343-2494
e-mail: bob.white@umontreal.ca



Research interests:  popular culture in Africa, performance, cultural
commodities, Congolese popular dance music, anthropology of cities, visual
anthropology, cultural policy, colonial history, tourism.

Teaching:  ethnographic film, popular culture, Sub-Saharan Africa,
politics of "World Music"

Ph.D. dissertation:  Modernity's Spiral:  Popular Culture, Mastery and the
Politics of Dance Music in Congo-Kinshasa.

Selected publications:

"Soukouss or Sell-Out?  Congolese Popular Dance Music on the World
Market."  In Commodities and Globalization:  Anthropological
Perspectives. Ed. by Angelique Haugerud, M. Priscilla Stone, and 
Peter D. Little.  New York: Rowman & Littlefield.  2000.

"Modernity's Trickster:  'Dipping' and 'Throwing' in Congolese Popular
Dance Music."  Research in African Literatures.  Special Issue
on Performance.  Fall 1999.

Singing the Sponsor:  Popular Music and Micropolitics in Mobutuland and
After.  C.A.A.S. working paper weries; no. 44.  (pp. 1-30) 
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Center for Afroamerican and African Studies,
University of Michigan, 1997.

"Talk About School:  Education and the Colonial Project in French and
British Africa."  The Journal of Comparative Education. Volume 32:
1 (1996): 9-25.  Bristol, U.K.