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Author |
: Karin Barber |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 309 |
Release |
: 1997-06-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780253028075 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0253028078 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis West African Popular Theatre by : Karin Barber
" . . . a ground-breaking contribution to the field of African literature . . . " —Research in African Literatures "Anyone with the slightest interest in West African cultures, performance or theatre should immediately rush out and buy this book." —Leeds African Studies Bulletin "A seminal contribution to the fields of performance studies, cultural studies, and popular culture. " —Margaret Drewal "A fine book. The play texts are treasures." —Richard Bauman African popular culture is an arena where the tensions and transformations of colonial and post-colonial society are played out, offering us a glimpse of the view from below in Africa. This book offers a comparative overview of the history, social context, and style of three major West African popular theatre genres: the concert party of Ghana, the concert party of Togo, and the traveling popular theatre of western Nigeria.
Author |
: Karin Barber |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 314 |
Release |
: 1997-06-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0253210771 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780253210777 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis West African Popular Theatre by : Karin Barber
" . . . a ground-breaking contribution to the field of African literature . . . " —Research in African Literatures "Anyone with the slightest interest in West African cultures, performance or theatre should immediately rush out and buy this book." —Leeds African Studies Bulletin "A seminal contribution to the fields of performance studies, cultural studies, and popular culture. " —Margaret Drewal "A fine book. The play texts are treasures." —Richard Bauman African popular culture is an arena where the tensions and transformations of colonial and post-colonial society are played out, offering us a glimpse of the view from below in Africa. This book offers a comparative overview of the history, social context, and style of three major West African popular theatre genres: the concert party of Ghana, the concert party of Togo, and the traveling popular theatre of western Nigeria.
Author |
: Martin Banham |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 498 |
Release |
: 2004-05-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139451499 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139451499 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis A History of Theatre in Africa by : Martin Banham
This book aims to offer a broad history of theatre in Africa. The roots of African theatre are ancient and complex and lie in areas of community festival, seasonal rhythm and religious ritual, as well as in the work of popular entertainers and storytellers. Since the 1950s, in a movement that has paralleled the political emancipation of so much of the continent, there has also grown a theatre that comments back from the colonized world to the world of the colonists and explores its own cultural, political and linguistic identity. A History of Theatre in Africa offers a comprehensive, yet accessible, account of this long and varied chronicle, written by a team of scholars in the field. Chapters include an examination of the concepts of 'history' and 'theatre'; North Africa; Francophone theatre; Anglophone West Africa; East Africa; Southern Africa; Lusophone African theatre; Mauritius and Reunion; and the African diaspora.
Author |
: Brian Valente-Quinn |
Publisher |
: Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2021-07-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780810143678 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0810143674 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Senegalese Stagecraft by : Brian Valente-Quinn
Senegalese Stagecraft explores the theatrical stage in Senegal as a site of poetic expression, political activism, and community engagement. In their responses to the country’s colonial heritage, as well as through their innovations on the craft of theater‐making, Senegalese performers have created an array of decolonizing stage spaces that have shaped the country’s theater history. Their work has also addressed a global audience, experimenting with international performance practices while proposing new visions of the role of culture and stagecraft in society. Through a study of the innovative work of Senegalese theater-makers from the 1930s onward, Senegalese Stagecraft explores a wide range of historical contexts and themes, including French colonial education, cultural Pan‐Africanism, West African Sufism, uses of television and mass media, and popular theater and activism. Using a multidisciplinary approach that includes field, archival, and literary methods, Valente‐Quinn offers a fresh look at performance cultures of West Africa and the Global South in a book that will interest students and scholars in African, Francophone, and performance studies.
Author |
: Wole Soyinka |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSC:32106018061603 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Soyinka by : Wole Soyinka
Author |
: Christine Matzke |
Publisher |
: Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781847012579 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1847012574 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Theatre by : Christine Matzke
Compelling inside views of what characterises opera and music theatre in African and African diasporic contexts.
Author |
: Martin Banham |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 198 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0253215390 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780253215390 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Theatre by : Martin Banham
The contributions to this volume in the African Theatre series make clear that the role of women in the theatre across the continent has changed as control is mainly held by literate elites and women's traditional standing has been lost to men.
Author |
: Catherine M. Cole |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 213 |
Release |
: 2001-07-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780253108982 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0253108985 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ghana's Concert Party Theatre by : Catherine M. Cole
Ghana's Concert Party Theatre Catherine M. Cole An engaging history of Ghana's enormously popular concert party theatre. "... succeeds in conveying the exciting and fascinating character of the concert party genre, as well as showing clearly how this material can be used to rethink a number of contemporary theoretical themes and issues." -- Karin Barber Under colonial rule, the first concert party practitioners brought their comic variety shows to audiences throughout what was then the British Gold Coast colony. As social and political circumstances shifted through the colonial period and early years of Ghanaian independence, concert party actors demonstrated a remarkable responsiveness to changing social roles and volatile political situations as they continued to stage this extremely popular form of entertainment. Drawing on her participation as an actress in concert party performances, oral histories of performers, and archival research, Catherine M. Cole traces the history and development of Ghana's concert party tradition. She shows how concert parties combined an eclectic array of cultural influences, adapting characters and songs from American movies, popular British ballads, and local story-telling traditions into a spirited blend of comedy and social commentary. Actors in blackface, inspired by Al Jolson, and female impersonators dramatized the aspirations, experiences, and frustrations of their audiences. Cole's extensive and lively look into Ghana's concert party provides a unique perspective on the complex experience of British colonial domination, the postcolonial quest for national identity, and the dynamic processes of cultural appropriation and social change. This book will be essential reading for scholars and students of African performance, theatre, and popular culture. Catherine M. Cole is Assistant Professor in the Department of Dramatic Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has published numerous articles on African theatre and has collaborated with filmmaker Kwame Braun on "passing girl; riverside," a video essay on the ethical dilemmas of visual anthropology. June 2001 256 pages, 26 b&w photos, 3 maps, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, notes, bibl., index cloth 0-253-33845-X $49.95 L / £38.00 paper 0-253-21436-X $19.95 s / £15.50
Author |
: David Kerr |
Publisher |
: James Currey Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0852555334 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780852555330 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Popular Theatre by : David Kerr
African popular theater includes conventional drama plus such nonliterary performance as dance, mime, storytelling, masquerades, vaudeville, improvization, & the theater of social action & resistance. Media such as radio, film, & television are included.
Author |
: Martin Banham |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 198 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 025333599X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780253335999 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (9X Downloads) |
Synopsis African Theatre in Development by : Martin Banham
"A truly worthwhile resource in a growing field of research--the theater and drama of Africa--this volume collects ten essays about theater practice, publications, and productions; in-depth reviews of 17 books; and a new play." --Choice "... a 'must-have' for anybody interested in issues relating to theatre and development in Africa.... a pioneering effort... " --H-Net Reviews Art as a tool, weapon, or shield? This compelling issue and others are explored in this diverse collection of intriguing perspectives on African theatre in development. Also here: strategies in staging, propaganda, and mass education, and a discussion of the playwright Alemseged Tesfai's career in service to Eritrean liberation.