Tag: Dandyism

• ECAS: 7th European Conference on African Studies (Basel, 29 June-1 July 2017)

  

  The 7th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) will be taking place at the University of Basel (Switzerland) from 29th June to 1 July 2017. The theme for this year is “Urban Africa – Urban Africans: New encounters of the rural and the urban,” and I am aware from the preliminary call for panels that there…

  Carol Ann Dixon

  September 7, 2016

  Africa, African Diaspora, Art, Art – Politics, Cities, Conferences, Congo (Democratic Republic), Contemporary African Art, Diasporas, Europe, Fashion, Geography, Human Geography, Performance Art, Photography

  Aesthetics, African European Studies, Dandyism, Les Sapeurs, Urban environments, Urbanism, Urbanization

• Return of the Rudeboy: Ska, Swagger and ‘Sapologie’ at Somerset House

  

  After reading Sean O’Hagan’s thought-provoking preview of the ‘Return of the Rudeboy’ exhibition at Somerset House in London – titled, ‘Rude Boys: Shanty Town to Savile Row’ (The Guardian/Observer, 24th May 2014) – I placed this event quite high on my list of top 10 “must see” summer showcases, and managed to get along to…

  Carol Ann Dixon

  August 31, 2014

  Caribbean Diaspora, Curating, Curatorship, Diasporas, Exhibition Review, Exhibitions, Fashion, London, United Kingdom

  Baudouin Mouanda, Brazzaville, Carol Tulloch, Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration, CNHI, Dandyism, Fashion, Kinshasa, Les Sapeurs, London, Michael McMillan, Monica L. Miller, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris, Robyn Orlin, Rudeboy, Rudegirl, Sapologie, Ska, Somerset House, Sound System