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The Performance Arts in Africa is the first anthology of key writings on African performance from many parts of the continent. As well as play texts, off the cuff comedy routines and masquerades, this exciting collection encompasses community-based drama, tourist presentations, television soap opera...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Harding, Frances
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Temas:
Performing arts > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Arts du spectacle > Afrique subsaharienne.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Performing arts
Performance > Künste
Toneel.
Toneelvoorstellingen.
Sociale aspecten.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Subsaharisches Afrika
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The dramatic limits of Igbo ritual / M.J.C. Echeruo
  • Myth, ritual and drama in Igboland / Ossie Enekwe
  • What's in a mask / John Picton
  • Acting Africa / Loren Kruger
  • National erotica : the politics of 'traditional' dance in Tanzania / Laura Edmondson
  • Individualism and community in the theatre of Serumaga / Andrew Horn
  • The gods as guests : an aspect of Kalabari religious life / Robin Horton
  • Masking in Mende Sande society initiation rituals / Ruth B. Phillips
  • Gyinna-Gyinna : making the djinn manifest / René A. Bravmann
  • Creativity, participation and change in Theatre for Development practice / Oga S. Abah
  • Playing the puppets : innovation and rivalry in Bamana youth theatre of Mali / Mary Jo Arnoldi
  • Storytelling theatre in Sierra Leone : the example of Lele Gbomba / Julius S. Spencer
  • The language of anglophone Cameroon drama / Asheri Kilo
  • Congolese playwrights as cultural revisionists / Emmanuel Yewah
  • Purity and pollution in Freetown masked performance / John Nunley
  • Comic opera in Ghana / E.J. Collins
  • Folklore and tradition in the drama of Cliff Lubwa p'Chong / Sam Kasule
  • Horrific comedy : cultural resistance and the Hauka movement in Niger / Paul Stoller
  • South African theatre in an era of reconciliation / Zakes Mda
  • Masks and secrecy among the Chewa / Kenji Yoshida
  • Tourism and social change among the Dogon / Paul J. Lane
  • Theatre and social issues in Malawi : performers, audiences, aesthetics / David Kerr
  • Fathers and sons : politics and myth in recent Zambian drama / Stewart Crehan
  • The art of festival in Ghana / Herbert M. Cole.

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