Trickster Theatre
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-01645-4 (ISBN)
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 |
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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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