The Ghanaian Concert Party
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Ghana S Concert Party Theatre
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Author : Catherine M. Cole
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2001
Ghana S Concert Party Theatre 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 2001 with Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) categories.
"... 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.
The Ghanaian Concert Party
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Author : John Collins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
The Ghanaian Concert Party written by John Collins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Highlife (Music) categories.
West African Popular Theatre
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Author : Karin Barber
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1997-06-22
West African Popular Theatre written by Karin Barber 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 1997-06-22 with Performing Arts categories.
" . . . 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.
Ghanaian Popular Theatre
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Author : Catherine M. Cole
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Ghanaian Popular Theatre written by Catherine M. Cole and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Performing arts categories.
The Ghanian concert party is a form of travelling popular theater that is a tradition of twentieth century West Africa.
Ghanaian Theatre
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Author : James Gibbs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Ghanaian Theatre written by James Gibbs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Ghanaian drama categories.
Thematic Concerns Of The Concert Early Concert Tradition In West Africa
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Author : Obinna Solomon Nwachukwu
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2018-02-28
Thematic Concerns Of The Concert Early Concert Tradition In West Africa written by Obinna Solomon Nwachukwu and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-28 with Social Science categories.
Essay from the year 2018 in the subject Cultural Studies - Miscellaneous, , language: English, abstract: This paper gives a deep insight into the dynamics of the traditions that brought about the concert party in West Africa. It traces the origins of the tradition from Nigeria and Ghana, cutting across other West African countries using the selected texts to give a deeper understanding of the impact of the concert theater which has been modified into different formats into films and cinemas today. It goes a long way to show how far this form of entertainment has been modified and grown today in our society, which goes a long way to show as evident for the multiplicity of this medium into different forms of entertainment as had brought this region into limelight in the world scene.
Ghana S Concert Party Theatre
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Author : Catherine M. Cole
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2001-07-11
Ghana S Concert Party Theatre 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 2001-07-11 with Drama categories.
A history of Ghana's enormously popular concert party theatre.
Highlife Saturday Night
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Author : Nate Plageman
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2013
Highlife Saturday Night written by Nate Plageman 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 2013 with History categories.
Highlife Saturday Night captures the vibrancy of Saturday nights in Ghana—when musicians took to the stage and dancers took to the floor—in this penetrating look at musical leisure during a time of social, political, and cultural change. Framing dance band "highlife" music as a central medium through which Ghanaians negotiated gendered and generational social relations, Nate Plageman shows how popular music was central to the rhythm of daily life in a West African nation. He traces the history of highlife in urban Ghana during much of the 20th century and documents a range of figures that fueled the music's emergence, evolution, and explosive popularity. This book is generously enhanced by audiovisual material on the Ethnomusicology Multimedia website.
Spiders Of The Market
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Author : David Afriyie Donkor
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2016-07-04
Spiders Of The Market written by David Afriyie Donkor 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 2016-07-04 with Performing Arts categories.
An analysis of the trickster spider character from West African folklore, performance, and Ghanian politics. The Ghanaian trickster-spider, Ananse, is a deceptive figure full of comic delight who blurs the lines of class, politics, and morality. David Afriyie Donkor identifies social performance as a way to understand trickster behavior within the shifting process of political legitimization in Ghana, revealing stories that exploit the social ideologies of economic neoliberalism and political democratization. At the level of policy, neither ideology was completely successful, but Donkor shows how the Ghanaian government was crafty in selling the ideas to the people, adapting trickster-rooted performance techniques to reinterpret citizenship and the common good. Trickster performers rebelled against this takeover of their art and sought new ways to out trick the tricksters. “A precise and inviting appeal to political economy, performance, and the enduring relevance of the cultural and archetypal trickster.” —D. Soyini Madison, Northwestern University “David Afriyie Donkor’s experience as a theatre artist and director supports the rich political economic component that frames this analysis of performance and performance traditions for broad audiences.” —Jesse Weaver Shipley, Haverford College “By sharing the performance experiences, rather than texts, Donkor accomplishes the challenging task of introducing rare theatre performances in a particularly compelling context for a Western readership in a global age.” —Theatre Survey “Overall, as a Ghanaian actor and director as well as a scholar, Donkor’s cultural insider analyses of ananse theatre within the space of political economy make important contributions and interventions to the discourses on performance (theory) and neoliberalism and their interaction in Ghana and Africa.” —African Studies Review
Spiders Of The Market Enhanced Ebook
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Author : David Afriyie Donkor
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2016-07-11
Spiders Of The Market Enhanced Ebook written by David Afriyie Donkor 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 2016-07-11 with Music categories.
The Ghanaian trickster-spider, Ananse, is a deceptive figure full of comic delight who blurs the lines of class, politics, and morality. David Afriyie Donkor identifies social performance as a way to understand trickster behavior within the shifting process of political legitimization in Ghana, revealing stories that exploit the social ideologies of economic neoliberalism and political democratization. At the level of policy, neither ideology was completely successful, but Donkor shows how the Ghanaian government was crafty in selling the ideas to the people, adapting trickster-rooted performance techniques to reinterpret citizenship and the common good. Trickster performers rebelled against this takeover of their art and sought new ways to out trick the tricksters.