Trickster Theatre - Jesse Weaver Shipley

Trickster Theatre

The Poetics of Freedom in Urban Africa
Buch | Hardcover
300 Seiten
2015
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-01645-4 (ISBN)
94,75 inkl. MwSt
Trickster Theatre traces the changing social significance of national theatre in Ghana from its rise as an idealistic state project from the time of independence to its reinvention in recent electronic, market-oriented genres. Jesse Weaver Shipley presents portraits of many key figures in Ghanaian theatre and examines how Akan trickster tales were adapted as the basis of a modern national theatre. This performance style tied Accra's evolving urban identity to rural origins and to Pan-African liberation politics. Contradictions emerge, however, when the ideal Ghanaian citizen is a mythic hustler who stands at the crossroads between personal desires and collective obligations. Shipley examines the interplay between on-stage action and off-stage events to show how trickster theatre shapes an evolving urban world.

Jesse Weaver Shipley is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Haverford College. He is author of Living the Hiplife: Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music and has produced a documentary film with the same title.

Introduction: Poetics of Uncertainty

Part I. History and Mediations in Making Theatre

1. Making Culture: Race, History, and a Theory of Performance in the Gold Coast Colony
2. The National Theatre Movement: Urban Art Infrastructures and a Contested National Culture in Independence-Era Accra
3. Revolutionary Storytelling: Pan-African Theatre and Remaking Lost Futures in 1980s Ghana
4. A Man of the People: Mohammed Ben Abdallah as Artist-Politician

Part II. Stagings in Millennial Ghana

5. Total African Theatre: Language, Reflexivity, and Ambiguity in The Witch of Mopti
6. "The Best Tradition Goes On": Audience, Consumption, and the Structural Transformation of Concert Party Popular Theatre
7. Fake Pastors and Real Comedians: Doubling and Parody in Miraculous, Charismatic Performance
8. Copying Independence: Backstage at the Fiftieth-Anniversary Reenactment of Nkrumah's Independence Speech

Conclusion: Unfreedom as Critical Theory

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 22.6.2015
Zusatzinfo 16 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort Bloomington, IN
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 649 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-253-01645-2 / 0253016452
ISBN-13 978-0-253-01645-4 / 9780253016454
Zustand Neuware
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