Africa

United States of America

Class of '58 Endowed Professor

Xavier University, New Orleans, Louisiana

sjsalm@xula.edu

Department of History
Xavier University of Louisiana
1 Drexel Drive
New Orleans, Louisiana 70125 USA

phone: 504.520.5272
fax: 504.520.7938

http://www.xula.edu/history/faculty.html

Ghana, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa

B.A. Univ. of Wisconsin Madison
M.A. University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin

Urban history, youth culture, popular culture, Atlantic World, Globalization.

Globalization and the African Experience (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2012)

African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspectives, Rochester: University of
Rochester Press (2005/09).

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.

“Africanizing the West: Changing Expressions of Popular Culture among Urban Youth,” in Globalization and the African Experience, Emmanuel M. Mbah and Steven J. Salm (eds.) (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2012), 213-235.

“Globalization and West African Music,” History Compass. 8/12 (2010), 1328-1339.

“‘Down on River Road’: Popular Music, Identity, and the Lumpen Youth of Nairobi,” in Urbanization and African Cultures, in Toyin Falola and Steven J. Salm (eds.) (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2005), 167-184.

"'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).

urbanization ; African culture ; popular culture ; African music ; youth culture ; globalization ; .