Bob W. White

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	Canada
Affiliation	Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada
Email	bob.white@umontreal.ca
Mailing Address	Département d'Anthropologie Université de Montréal C.P. 6128 Succursale Centre-Ville Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7 Canada
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: (514) 343-7329 fax: (514) 343-2494
Countries of Specialization	Congo (Democratic Republic)
Research Interests	popular culture in Africa, performance, cultural commodities, Congolese popular dance music, anthropology of cities, visual anthropology, cultural policy, colonial history, tourism. Ph.D. dissertation: Modernity's Spiral: Popular Culture, Mastery and the Politics of Dance Music in Congo-Kinshasa.
Teaching Interests	ethnographic film, popular culture, Sub-Saharan Africa, politics of "World Music".
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.
Keywords	ethnographic film ; popular culture ; Sub-Saharan Africa ; world music ; Africa ; Congo-Kinshasa.