The Performance Arts In Africa

Author : Frances Harding
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136416897
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Performance Arts in Africa written by Frances Harding and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Kene Igweonu
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401200823
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trends in Twenty-First-Century African Theatre and Performance written by Kene Igweonu and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2011 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trends in Twenty-First Century African Theatre and Performance is a collection of regionally focused articles on African theatre and performance. The volume provides a broad exploration of the current state of African theatre and performance and considers the directions they are taking in the 21st Century. It contains sections on current trends in theatre and performance studies, on applied/community theatre and on playwrights. The chapters have evolved out of a working group process, in which papers were submitted to peer-group scrutiny over a period of four years, at four international conferences. The book will be particularly useful as a key text for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in non-western theatre and performance (where this includes African theatre and performance), and would be a very useful resource for theatre scholars and anyone interested in African performance forms and cultures.

Author : Naomi Andre
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472054821
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Performance Arts and Political Acts written by Naomi Andre and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how performance arts, whether staged or in daily life, regularly interface with political action across the African continent

Author : Ruth M. Stone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performance in Contemporary African Arts written by Ruth M. Stone and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frances Harding
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113641696X
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Performance Arts in Africa written by Frances Harding and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jay Pather
Publisher : Wits University Press
ISBN 13 : 1776142799
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Acts of Transgression written by Jay Pather and published by Wits University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen writers explore the experimental, interdisciplinary and radically transgressive field of contemporary live art in South Africa, focusing on a wide range of perspectives, personalities and theoretical concerns. Contemporary South African society is chronologically ‘post’ apartheid, but it continues to grapple with material redress, land redistribution and systemic racism. Acts of Transgression represents the complexity of this moment in the rich potential of a performative art form that transcends disciplinary boundaries and aesthetic conventions. The contributors, who are all significantly involved in the discipline of performance art, probe its intersection with crisis and socio-political turbulence, shifting notions of identity and belonging, embodied trauma and loss. Narratives of the past and visions for the future are interrogated through memory and the archive, thus destabilising entrenched colonial systems. Collectively analysing the work of more than 25 contemporary South African artists, including Athi-Patra Ruga, Mohau Modisakeng, Steven Cohen, Dean Hutton, Mikhael Subotzsky, Tracey Rose and Donna Kukama, among others, the analysis is accompanied by a visual record of more than 50 photographs. For those working in the fields of theatre, performance studies and art, this is a must-have collection of critical essays on a burgeoning and exciting field of contemporary South African research.

Author : Awo Mana Asiedu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780992843649
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Performing Arts in Africa - Ghanaian Perspectives written by Awo Mana Asiedu and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Conteh-Morgan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253217016
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Drama and Performance written by John Conteh-Morgan and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title explores the diversity of the performing arts in Africa and the diaspora, from studies of major dramatic authors and formal literary dramas to improvisational theatre and popular video films.

Author : Patrick J. Ebewo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443891770
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Explorations in Southern African Drama, Theatre and Performance written by Patrick J. Ebewo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of the rich repertoire of artistic traditions in Southern Africa, particularly in the areas of drama, theatre and performance, there seems to be a lack of a corresponding robust academic engagement with these subjects. While it can be said that some of the racial groups in the region have received substantial attention in terms of scholarly discussions of their drama and theatre performances, the same cannot be said of the black African racial group. As such, this collection of thirteen chapters represents a compendium of critical and intellectual discourses on black African drama, theatre and performance in Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa, and Swaziland. The topics covered in the book include, amongst others, ritual practices, interventionist approaches to drama, textual analyses, and the funeral rites (viewed as performance) of the South African liberation icon Nelson Mandela. The discussions are rooted mainly using African paradigms that are relevant to the context of African cultural production. The contributions here add to the aggregate knowledge economy of Southern Africa, promote research and publication, and provide reading materials for university students specialising in the performing arts. As such, the book will appeal to academics, theatre scholars, cultural workers and arts administrators, arts practitioners and entrepreneurs, the tourism industry, arts educators, and development communication experts.

Author : Paulla A. Ebron
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400825210
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Africa written by Paulla A. Ebron and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.