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Author : Kacke Götrick
Publisher : Stockholm, Sweden : Almqvist & Wiksell International
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Apidan Theatre and Modern Drama written by Kacke Götrick and published by Stockholm, Sweden : Almqvist & Wiksell International. This book was released on 1984 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margaret Thompson Drewal
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253112737
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (531 download)
Download or read book Yoruba Ritual written by Margaret Thompson Drewal and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1992-03-22 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yoruba peoples of southwestern Nigeria conceive of rituals as journeys -- sometimes actual, sometimes virtual. Performed as a parade or a procession, a pilgrimage, a masking display, or possession trance, the journey evokes the reflexive, progressive, transformative experience of ritual participation. Yoruba Ritual is an original and provocative study of these practices. Using a performance paradigm, Margaret Thompson Drewal forges a new theoretical and methodological approach to the study of ritual that is thoroughly grounded in close analysis of the thoughts and actions of the participants. Challenging traditional notions of ritual as rigid, stereotypic, and invariant, Drewal reveals ritual to be progressive, transformative, generative, and reflexive and replete with simultaneity, multifocality, contingency, indeterminacy, and intertextuality. Throughout the book prominence is given to the intentionality of actors as knowledgeable agents who transform ritual itself through play and improvisation. Integral to the narrative are interpolations about performances and their meanings by Kolawole Ositola, a scholar of Yoruba oral tradition, ritual practitioner, diviner, and master performer. Rich descriptions of rituals relating to birth, death, reincarnation, divination, and constructions of gender are rendered all the more vivid by a generous selection of field photos of actual performances.
Author : Raoul Granqvist
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN 13 : 9789171063304
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (633 download)
Download or read book Culture in Africa written by Raoul Granqvist and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 1993 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M.N. Akinwunmi-Othman
Publisher : Akin Othman Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book African Tales 2 written by M.N. Akinwunmi-Othman and published by Akin Othman Books. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As well being a source of entertainment for millennia, the telling of stories in Africa has been an important way to communicate vital life-lessons across the generations. African culture, wisdom and morals were preserved in this way both prior to, and after colonisation of the continent. The thought-provoking stories collected within ‘African Tales Two’ are inspired by the stories told to the author as a young boy, as he sat enthralled on his Grandmother’s knees in Nigeria. The book is more than just a collection of tales themed around various engaging characters. It is a significant contribution to the rediscovery and revitalisation of African heritage. Part One of the book chronicles an expedition into the ‘Forest of the Djins’ and the ‘Land of the Dead’ by a man in search of an heir. Part Two is a collection of short stories - each of which tell us much about the morals, etiquette and values found within African culture.
Author : Gabriel Ogundeji Ogunremi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ibadan written by Gabriel Ogundeji Ogunremi and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adebola Abeni Omotayo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (212 download)
Download or read book Ayelabola written by Adebola Abeni Omotayo and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ayelabola is a book of African Proverbs by the Yoruba. Each of the five hundred proverbs compiled in the book begins with the first letter of the Yoruba alphabet, 'A'. Each proverb is translated to English language to extend understanding of the proverbs to a larger audience. Ayelabola is the first in the series of African Proverbs by the Yoruba: Abeni's Collection. It will be followed by Bibiire, a collection of African Proverbs by the Yoruba under the second letter of the Yoruba alphabet, B. The title, Ayelabola, is derived from a simple Yoruba proverb that issues an all-encompassing advice against all forms of material-desire-driven vices. Ayelabola is presented in simple sentences and the English translations further unveil the meanings to those who are not so versed in Yoruba language. The book is an asset which everyone willing to further understand the Yoruba language and the Yoruba people must possess.
Author : Cristina Boscolo
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9042026812
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Odún written by Cristina Boscolo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetic ‘voice’ scans the rhythm of academic research, telling of the encounter with odún; then the voice falls silent. What is then raised is the dust of a forgotten academic debate on the nature of theatre and drama, and the following divergent standpoints of critical discourses bent on empowering their own vision, and defining themselves, rather, as counterdiscourses. This, the first part of the book: a metacritical discourse, on the geopolitics (the inherent power imbalances) of academic writing and its effects on odún, the performances dedicated to the gods, ancestors, and heroes of Yorùbá history. But odún: where is it? and what is it? And the ‘voice’? The many critical discourses have not really answered these questions. In effect, odún is many things. To enable the reader to see these, the study proceeds with an ‘intermezzo’: a frame of reference that sets odún, the festival, in its own historico-cultural ecoenvironment, identifying the strategies that inform the performance and constitute its aesthetic. It is a ‘classical’ yet, for odún, an innovative procedure. This interdisciplinary background equips the reader with the knowledge necessary to watch the performance, to witness its beauty, and to understand the ‘half words’ odún utters. And now the performance can begin. The ‘voice’ emerges one last time, to introduce the second section, which presents two case studies. The reader is led, day by day, through the celebrations –odún edì, Morèmi’s story, and its realization in performance; then confrontation by the masks of the ancestors duing odún egúngún (particularly as held in Ibadan). The meaning of odún becomes clearer and clearer. Odún is poetry, dances, masks, food, prayer. It is play (eré) and belief (ìgbàgbó). It is interaction between the players (both performers and spectators). It is also politics and power. It contains secrets and sacrifices. It is a reality with its own dimension and, above all, as the quintessential site of knowledge, it possesses the power to transform. In short, it is a challenge – a challenge that the present book and its voices take up.
Author : Jacqueline Rose
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374715831
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Mothers written by Jacqueline Rose and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A simple argument guides this book: motherhood is the place in our culture where we lodge, or rather bury, the reality of our own conflicts. By making mothers the objects of both licensed idealization and cruelty, we blind ourselves to the world’s iniquities and shut down the portals of the heart. Mothers are the ultimate scapegoat for our personal and political failings, for everything that is wrong with the world, which becomes their task (unrealizable, of course) to repair. Moving commandingly between pop cultural references such as Roald Dahl’s Matilda to insights on motherhood in the ancient world and the contemporary stigmatization of single mothers, Jacqueline Rose delivers a groundbreaking report into something so prevalent we hardly notice. Mothers is an incisive, rousing call to action from one of our most important contemporary thinkers.
Author : MARCELO MADAN
Publisher : Madan Orunmila Edition Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book THE 256 ODU IFA CUBAN AND TRADITIONAL VOL. 22 Iwori Ika-Iwori Oturupon written by MARCELO MADAN and published by Madan Orunmila Edition Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-02 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These Treatises of the Odu of Ifá in volumes, are very complete, since In addition to treating the Afro-Cuban Odu de Ifá, they also contain Traditional African Ifá treatises. Both gather thousands of Pataki or Histories, thousands of Eboses and works, which will make it easier for you to deepen your study and solve any situation that arises in the religious field of consulting the Ifa oracle. The Synthesis of the Treaties of the Odu of Ifá already published by me previously, is nothing more than as its name indicates, a synthesis of these treaties, whose objective was always to support to the Babalawo as a handy pocket reminder, based on the fact that it has been studied and deepened before in the study of these volumes which will lead you to have the most complete knowledge about Ifá. For these reasons, it is highly recommended to have this valuable information in your library. We have grouped only two Odu per book, to make it as cheap as possible and facilitate its acquisition.
Author : Marcelo Madan
Publisher : Madan Orunmila Edition Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book THE 256 ODU IFA VOL. 60 OKANRAN OWONRIN-OKANRAN OBARA written by Marcelo Madan and published by Madan Orunmila Edition Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-02 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These Treatises of the Odu of Ifá in volumes, are very complete, since In addition to treating the Afro-Cuban Odu de Ifá, they also contain Traditional African Ifá treatises. Both gather thousands of Pataki or Histories, thousands of Eboses and works, which will make it easier for you to deepen your study and solve any situation that arises in the religious field of consulting the Ifa oracle. The Synthesis of the Treaties of the Odu of Ifá already published by me previously, is nothing more than as its name indicates, a synthesis of these treaties, whose objective was always to support to the Babalawo as a handy pocket reminder, based on the fact that it has been studied and deepened before in the study of these volumes which will lead you to have the most complete knowledge about Ifá. For these reasons, it is highly recommended to have this valuable information in your library. We have grouped only two Odu per book, to make it as cheap as possible and facilitate its acquisition.
Author : James M. Harding
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472025090
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Not the Other Avant-Garde written by James M. Harding and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost without exception, studies of the avant-garde take for granted the premise that the influential experimental practices associated with the avant-garde began primarily as a European phenomenon that in turn spread around the world. These ten original essays, especially commissioned for Not the Other Avant-Garde, forge a radically new conception of the avant-garde by demonstrating the many ways in which the first- and second-wave avant-gardes were always already a transnational phenomenon, an amalgam of often contradictory performance traditions and practices developed in various cultural locations around the world, including Africa, the Middle East, Mexico, Argentina, India, and Japan. Essays from leading scholars and critics-including Marvin Carlson, Sudipto Chatterjee, John Conteh-Morgan, Peter Eckersall, Harry J. Elam Jr., Joachim Fiebach, David G. Goodman, Jean Graham-Jones, Hannah Higgins, and Adam Versényi-suggest collectively that the very concept of the avant-garde is possible only if conceptualized beyond the limitations of Eurocentric paradigms. Not the Other Avant-Garde is groundbreaking in both avant-garde studies and performance studies and will be a valuable contribution to the fields of theater studies, modernist studies, art history, literature, and music history. "Joins the growing field of critical and transnational theories on the arts. . . its grounding in live performance and its foregrounding of the performative human body presents a new theoretical paradigm that is pathbreaking." --Haiping Yan, University of California, Los Angeles James M. Harding is Associate Professor of English at Mary Washington University. He is author of Adorno and "A Writing of the Ruins": Essays on Modern Aesthetics and Anglo-American Literature and Culture and editor of Contours of the Theatrical Avant-Garde: Performance and Textuality. John Rouse is Associate Professor of Theater at the University of California, San Diego. He is author of Brecht and the West German Theatre.
Author : Dafe Otobo
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9875477532
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (754 download)
Download or read book Reforms and Nigerian Labour and Employment Relations written by Dafe Otobo and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collections of papers, from twenty-seven chapters is on aspects of reforms and labour and employment relations in Nigeria over the past three decades.
Author : Babatunde Lawal
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295975993
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (759 download)
Download or read book The Gẹ̀lẹ̀dé Spectacle written by Babatunde Lawal and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable study explores the use of the visual and performing arts to promote nonviolence and social harmony in sub-Saharan Africa. It focuses on Gelede, a popular community festival of masquerade, dance, and song, held several times a year by the Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria and the Republic of Benin. Babatunde Lawal, an art historian and African scholar who has taught in Nigeria, Brazil, and the United States, is himself a Yoruba and has taken an active part in Gelede. He writes from the perspective of an informed participant/observer of his own culture. Lawal bases his book on extensive field research--observations and interviews--conducted over more than two decades as well as on numerous published and unpublished scholarly sources. He casts significant new light on many previously obscure aspects of Gelede, and he demonstrates a useful methodological approach to the study of non-Western art. The book systematically covers the major aspects of the Gelede spectacle, presenting its cultural background and historical origins as preface to a vivid and detailed description of an actual performance. This is followed by a discussion of the iconography and aesthetics of costume, and an examination of the sculpted images on the masks. The book concludes with a discussion of the moral and aesthetic philosophy of Gelede and its responsiveness to technological and social change. The Gelede Spectacle is illustrated in color and black-and-white with over 100 field and museum photographs, including a rare sequence on the dressing of a masquerader. It offers, in addition, more than 60 Gelede song texts, proverbs, and divination verses, each in the original Yoruba as well as in translation. Lawal's interpretations of these pieces indicate the rich complexities of metaphor and analogy inherent in the Yoruba language and art.
Author : Shola A. Olabode
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787560163
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Digital Activism and Cyberconflicts in Nigeria written by Shola A. Olabode and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers fresh insights on digital activism and cyberconflicts through a comparison of sociopolitical and ethnoreligious movements in Nigeria. Occupy Nigeria, Boko Haram and The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) highlight the digital and organizational aspects of conflict mobilization in contemporary Nigeria.
Author : Ude Walter Uchenna
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1493142119
Total Pages : 711 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (931 download)
Download or read book The Event written by Ude Walter Uchenna and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tale brings about a myriad of characters, each interwoven with the others in a story of suspense, betrayal, lust, love and, at times, humour. Nobel laureate Frederick Ekene is going to be honoured at a gala in the city of Abuja, an event that will herald his climb from disgrace back up into the public eye. The event is slated to be a grand one attended by the important and not-so-important of the city, many of whom plan to attend with other intentions aside celebrating Frederick Ekene.
Author : Foluke Ogunleye
Publisher : Integritas Services
ISBN 13 : 9789783626676
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (266 download)
Download or read book Theatre in Nigeria written by Foluke Ogunleye and published by Integritas Services. This book was released on 2007 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on earlier works on the African video film movement this book discusses: The Dynamics of Finance in the Nigerian Traveling Theatre; Christian Morality Plays in Nigeria; Television Docudrama as Alternative Records of History; Nigerian Tele-Drama and Propaganda; Money and Mercantilism in Nigerian Historical Plays; History of the Ori Olokun Theatre; and The Socio-Economic Construct of the Nigerian Home Video Film.
Author : MARCELO MADAN
Publisher : Madan Orunmila Edition Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book THE 256 ODU OF IFA VOL. 68 OGUNDA OWONRIN-OGUNDA OBARA written by MARCELO MADAN and published by Madan Orunmila Edition Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-13 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These Treatises of the Odu of Ifá in volumes, are very complete, since In addition to treating the Afro-Cuban Odu de Ifá, they also contain Traditional African Ifá treatises. Both gather thousands of Pataki or Histories, thousands of Eboses and works, which will make it easier for you to deepen your study and solve any situation that arises in the religious field of consulting the Ifa oracle. The Synthesis of the Treaties of the Odu of Ifá already published by me previously, is nothing more than as its name indicates, a synthesis of these treaties, whose objective was always to support to the Babalawo as a handy pocket reminder, based on the fact that it has been studied and deepened before in the study of these volumes which will lead you to have the most complete knowledge about Ifá. For these reasons, it is highly recommended to have this valuable information in your library. We have grouped only two Odu per book, to make it as cheap as possible and facilitate its acquisition.
