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Performing Arts and Gender in Postcolonial Western Uganda /

"Drawing on archival research and extensive fieldwork in the regions of Bunyoro and Tooro, Linda Cimardi examines the connection between traditional performing arts and gender in Western Uganda. The book focuses on runyege, the main genre of the Banyoro and Batooro people, exploring its differe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cimardi, Linda (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester : University of Rochester Press, 2023.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Traditional dance preserves culture and shows people how to behave": Runyege, MDD, and gender
  • Singing marriage, Runyege, and labor
  • "Women aren't supposed to": instrument playing in the past and today
  • Shaking the hips, stamping the feet. The Runyege dance
  • Narrating and representing local culture
  • Postlude: gendering culture
  • Appendix I. Historical recordings from Bunyoro and Tooro
  • Appendix II. Glossary of terms in Runyoro-Rutooro
  • Author's interviews.