Staging Ghana : Artistry and Nationalism in State Dance Ensembles /
The Ghana Dance Ensemble takes Ghana's national culture and interprets it in performance using authentic dance forms adapted for local or foreign audiences. Often, says Paul Schauert, the aims of the ensemble and the aims of the individual performers work in opposition. Schauert discusses the h...
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2015]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: managing nationalism, crossing crocodiles, and staging ethnography
- Beyond ethnicity, beyond Ghana : staging and embodying African personality
- Dancing essences : sensational staging and the cosmopolitan politics of authentication
- Soldiers of culture : discipline, artistry, and alternative education
- Speak to the wind : staging the state and performing indirection
- "We are the originals" : a tale of two troupes and the birth of contemporary dance in Ghana
- Politics of personality : creativity, competition, and self-expression within a unitary matrix
- Conclusion: managing self, state, and nation.