| African Performance Arts and Political Acts Contributor(s): Andre, Naomi (Author), Covington-Ward, Yolanda (Author), Hungbo, Jendele (Author) |
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ISBN: 0472074822 ISBN-13: 9780472074822 Publisher: University of Michigan Press OUR PRICE: $74.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Dance - Regional & Ethnic - Art |
| Dewey: 700.103 |
| LCCN: 2021947165 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.14 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: African Performance Arts and Political Actspresents innovative formulations for how African performance and the arts shape the narratives of cultural history and politics. This collection, edited by Naomi Andr , Yolanda Covington-Ward, and Jendele Hungbo, engages with a breadth of African countries and art forms, bringing together speech, hip hop, religious healing and gesture, theater and social justice, opera, radio announcements, protest songs, and migrant workers' dances. The spaces include village communities, city landscapes, prisons, urban hostels, Township theaters, opera houses, and broadcasts through the airwaves on television and radio as well as in cyberspace. Essays focus on case studies from Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania. |