Fabian is one of the first anthropologists to introduce the concept of popular culture into the study of contemporary Africa. In this collection of four essays based on a lecture series at the University of Virginia, he reflects on anthropological uses of the concept of popular culture, and retraces how his explorations of popular culture in an urban-industrial setting showed that classical culture theory could not account for large aspects of contemporary African life. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.