Places for Happiness : Community, Self, and Performance in the Philippines /

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William Peterson explores two of the most important performance-based activities in the Philippines - the processions and 'Passion Plays' associated with Easter and the mass-dance phenomenon known as 'street dancing'. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork, Peterson examines how people...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peterson, William, 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Strassentheater
Theater
Happiness.
Folk festivals.
HISTORY > Asia > Southeast Asia.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > General.
Bonheur > Philippines.
Festivals folkloriques > Philippines.
Theâtre de rue > Aspect politique > Philippines.
Theâtre de rue > Aspect social > Philippines.
Happiness > Philippines.
Folk festivals > Philippines.
Street theater > Political aspects > Philippines.
Street theater > Social aspects > Philippines.
Filippijnen.
Philippinen
Philippines.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : 'it's more fun in the Philippines'
  • Three Tagalog sinakulo : the repertoire and the scenario
  • The body of Christ
  • Panata, politics, and the morion of Marinduque
  • Dancing natives, dancing nation : from bayan to Bayanihan
  • Time and transcendence at Ati-atihan
  • Street dance and a bayan-centered framework
  • Juana Change : performing the personal and the political.

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