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Performing Africa
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Author : Paulla A. Ebron
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2009-04-11
Performing Africa written by Paulla A. Ebron and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-11 with Social Science categories.
The jali--a member of a hereditary group of Mandinka professional performers--is a charismatic but contradictory figure. He is at once the repository of his people's history, the voice of contemporary political authority, the inspiration for African American dreams of an African homeland, and the chief entertainment for the burgeoning transnational tourist industry. Numerous journalists, scholars, politicians, and culture aficionados have tried to pin him down. This book shows how the jali's talents at performance make him a genius at representation--the ideal figure to tell us about the "Africa" that the world imagines, which is always a thing of illusion, magic, and contradiction. Africa often enters the global imagination through news accounts of ethnic war, famine, and despotic political regimes. Those interested in countering such dystopic images--be they cultural nationalists in the African diaspora or connoisseurs of "global culture"--often found their representations of an emancipatory Africa on an enthusiasm for West African popular culture and performance arts. Based on extensive field research in The Gambia and focusing on the figure of the jali, Performing Africa interrogates these representations together with their cultural and political implications. It explores how Africa is produced, circulated, and consumed through performance and how encounters through performance create the place of Africa in the world. Innovative and discerning, Performing Africa is a provocative contribution to debates over cultural nationalism and the construction of identity and history in Africa and elsewhere.
Performing Africa
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Author : Thomas Riccio
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2007
Performing Africa written by Thomas Riccio and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Art categories.
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Performing Africa Representations
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Author : Paulla A. Ebron
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Performing Africa Representations written by Paulla A. Ebron and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Folklore categories.
The jali--a member of a hereditary group of Mandinka professional performers--is a charismatic but contradictory figure. He is at once the repository of his people's history, the voice of contemporary political authority, the inspiration for African American dreams of an African homeland, and the chief entertainment for the burgeoning transnational tourist industry. Numerous journalists, scholars, politicians, and culture aficionados have tried to pin him down. This book shows how the jali's talents at performance make him a genius at representation--the ideal figure to tell us about.
Performing Migrancy And Mobility In Africa
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Author : Mark Fleishman
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-12-02
Performing Migrancy And Mobility In Africa written by Mark Fleishman and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-02 with Social Science categories.
Performing Migrancy and Mobility in Africa focuses on a body of performance work, the work of Magnet Theatre in particular but also work by other artists in Cape Town and other parts of the continent or the world, that engages with the Cape as a real or imagined node in a complex system of migration and mobility. Located at the foot of the African continent, lodged between two oceans at the intersection of many of the earth's major shipping lanes, Cape Town is a stage for a powerful mixing of cultures and peoples and has been an important node in a network of flows, circuits of movement and exchange. The performance works studied here attempt to get to grips with what it feels like to be on the move and in the spaces in-between that characterises the lives, now and for centuries before, of multiple peoples who move around and pass through places like the Cape. The contributors are a broad range of mostly African authors from various parts of the continent and as such the book offers an insight into new thinking and new approaches from an emerging and important location.
The Performance Arts In Africa
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Author : Frances Harding
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-12-16
The Performance Arts In Africa written by Frances Harding and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-16 with Drama categories.
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 operas, puppet theatre, dance, song, and ceremonial ritualised performances. Themes discussed are: * theory * performers and performing * voice, language and words * spectators, space and time. The book also includes an introduction which examines some of the crucial debates, past and present, surrounding African performance. The Performance Arts of Africa is an essential introduction for those new to the field and is an invaluable reference source for those already familiar with African performance.
The Performing Arts In Africa Ghanaian Perspectives
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Author : Awo Mana Asiedu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
The Performing Arts In Africa Ghanaian Perspectives written by Awo Mana Asiedu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Performing arts categories.
Performing Trauma In Central Africa
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Author : Laura Edmondson
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2018-03-26
Performing Trauma In Central Africa written by Laura Edmondson and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-26 with History categories.
What are the stakes of cultural production in a time of war? How is artistic expression prone to manipulation by the state and international humanitarian organizations? In the charged political terrain of post-genocide Rwanda, post-civil war Uganda, and recent violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Laura Edmondson explores performance through the lens of empire. Instead of celebrating theatre productions as expression of cultural agency and resilience, Edmondson traces their humanitarian imperatives to a place where global narratives of violence take precedence over local traditions and audiences. Working at the intersection of performance and trauma, Edmondson reveals how artists and cultural workers manipulate narratives in the shadow of empire and how empire, in turn, infiltrates creative capacities.
Performing South Africa S Truth Commission
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Author : Catherine M. Cole
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2010
Performing South Africa S Truth Commission written by Catherine M. Cole and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Apartheid categories.
South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commissions helped to end apartheid by providing a forum that exposed the nation's gross human rights abuses, provided amnesty and reparations to selected individuals, and eventually promoted national unity and healing. The success or failure of these commissions has been widely debated, but this is the first book to view the truth commission as public ritual and national theater. Catherine M. Cole brings an ethnographer's ear, a stage director's eye, and a historian's judgment to understand the vocabulary and practices of theater that mattered to the South Africans who participated in the reconciliation process. Cole looks closely at the record of the commissions, and sees their tortured expressiveness as a medium for performing evidence and truth to legitimize a new South Africa.
African Youth Languages
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Author : Ellen Hurst-Harosh
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-03-06
African Youth Languages written by Ellen Hurst-Harosh and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-06 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This book showcases current research on language in new media, the performing arts and music in Africa, emphasising the role that youth play in language change and development. The authors demonstrate how the efforts of young people to throw off old colonial languages and create new local ones has become a site of language creativity. Analysing the language of ‘new media’, including social media, print media and new media technologies, and of creative arts such as performance poetry, hip-hop and rap, they use empirical research from such diverse countries as Cameroon, Nigeria, Kenya, the Ivory Coast and South Africa. This original edited collection will appeal to students and scholars of African sociolinguistics, particularly in the light of the rapidly changing globalized context in which we live.
Performing Whitely In The Postcolony
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Author : Megan Lewis
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2016-12
Performing Whitely In The Postcolony written by Megan Lewis and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12 with History categories.
Megan Lewis is an assistant professor of theatre in the dramaturgy program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She currently lives and works in the Pioneer Valley of Amherst, Massachusetts. Book jacket.