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A History of Theatre in Africa

Author : Martin Banham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139451499
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book A History of Theatre in Africa written by Martin Banham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-13 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to offer a broad history of theatre in Africa. The roots of African theatre are ancient and complex and lie in areas of community festival, seasonal rhythm and religious ritual, as well as in the work of popular entertainers and storytellers. Since the 1950s, in a movement that has paralleled the political emancipation of so much of the continent, there has also grown a theatre that comments back from the colonized world to the world of the colonists and explores its own cultural, political and linguistic identity. A History of Theatre in Africa offers a comprehensive, yet accessible, account of this long and varied chronicle, written by a team of scholars in the field. Chapters include an examination of the concepts of 'history' and 'theatre'; North Africa; Francophone theatre; Anglophone West Africa; East Africa; Southern Africa; Lusophone African theatre; Mauritius and Reunion; and the African diaspora.

Pre-colonial and Post-colonial Drama and Theatre in Africa

Author : Lokangaka Losambe
Publisher : New Africa Books
ISBN 13 : 9781919876061
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Pre-colonial and Post-colonial Drama and Theatre in Africa written by Lokangaka Losambe and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays written from different critical perspectives, African playwrights demonstrate through their art that they are not only witnesses, but also consciences, of their societies.

Soyinka

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Soyinka written by Wole Soyinka and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

African Drama and Performance

Author : John Conteh-Morgan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253217016
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 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.

African Theatre

Author : Martin Banham
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253215390
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book African Theatre written by Martin Banham and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions to this volume in the African Theatre series make clear that the role of women in the theatre across the continent has changed as control is mainly held by literate elites and women's traditional standing has been lost to men.

Explorations in Southern African Drama, Theatre and Performance

Author : Patrick J. Ebewo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443891770
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Explorations in Southern African Drama, Theatre and Performance by : Patrick J. Ebewo

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.

South African Drama and Theatre from Pre-colonial Times to the 1990s: An Alternative Reading

Author : Mzo Sirayi
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1477120823
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (771 download)

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Download or read book South African Drama and Theatre from Pre-colonial Times to the 1990s: An Alternative Reading written by Mzo Sirayi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mzo Sirayi has embarked on a highly impressive and daring enterprise with the unfl inching boldness of a scholar who is driven by a passionate pursuit to set the record straight. He manages to pull no punches and make no apologies by being true to his convictions, especially within the context of a new South Africa. The book adopts a largely historicized, critical and analytical perspective, which strikingly approximates that of postcolonial theory. — Owen Seda This new and authoritative book is an excellent addition to the few existing books on black South African drama and theatre. South African Drama and Th eatre from Pre-colonial Times to 1990s: An Alternative Reading takes the reader on a tour of the indigenous as well as the modern South African theatre zones. The chapters reverberate with echoes of Africanisation and rock on renaissance waves. This exciting and stimulating book is transparently readable, accessible and is of inestimable value to academics and general readers. — Patrick Ebewo

Theatre in Africa

Author : Oyin Ogunba
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre in Africa written by Oyin Ogunba and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

West African Popular Theatre

Author : Karin Barber
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253028078
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book West African Popular Theatre written by Karin Barber and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1997-06-22 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " . . . a ground-breaking contribution to the field of African literature . . . " —Research in African Literatures "Anyone with the slightest interest in West African cultures, performance or theatre should immediately rush out and buy this book." —Leeds African Studies Bulletin "A seminal contribution to the fields of performance studies, cultural studies, and popular culture. " —Margaret Drewal "A fine book. The play texts are treasures." —Richard Bauman African popular culture is an arena where the tensions and transformations of colonial and post-colonial society are played out, offering us a glimpse of the view from below in Africa. This book offers a comparative overview of the history, social context, and style of three major West African popular theatre genres: the concert party of Ghana, the concert party of Togo, and the traveling popular theatre of western Nigeria.

Theatre and Drama in Francophone Africa

Author : John Conteh-Morgan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521434539
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Theatre and Drama in Francophone Africa written by John Conteh-Morgan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-10-20 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study to be entirely devoted to African literary drama in French, a major component of African theater. Beginning with a detailed analysis of its relationship to a variety of precolonial, but sometimes still contemporary, traditions of performance that constitute part of its roots, the author examines this drama in both its literary and theatrical dimensions. He discusses its development, themes and techniques up to and including contemporary theater. The book is divided into two sections: Part One offers a theoretical and historical background; Part Two analyzes key individual plays central to the repertoire, including two from the Caribbean. All quotations are translated into English.

Trends in Twenty-First-Century African Theatre and Performance

Author : Kene Igweonu
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401200823
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 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.

African Theatre

Author : Martin Banham
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253215390
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (153 download)

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A History of African American Theatre

Author : Errol G. Hill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521624435
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (244 download)

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Download or read book A History of African American Theatre written by Errol G. Hill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-17 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

The Drama of South Africa

Author : Loren Kruger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134680864
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book The Drama of South Africa written by Loren Kruger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the development of dramatic writing and performance from the time South Africa was established to post-apartheid. Investigates the impact of sketches and manifestos, and the oral preservation of scripts that could not be written.

The Development of African Drama

Author : Michael Etherton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000952525
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Development of African Drama written by Michael Etherton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-18 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1982, this book explores concepts such as ‘traditional performance’ and African theatre’. It analyses the links between drama and ritual, and drama and music and diagnoses the confusions in our thought. The reader is reminded that drama is never merely the printed word, but that its existence as literature and in performance is necessarily different. The analysis shows that literature tends to replace performance; and drama, removed from the popular domain, becomes elitist. The book’s richness lies in the constantly stimulating analysis of ‘art’ theatre, as exemplified in protest plays, in African adaptations and transpositions of such classical subjects as the Bacchae and Everyman, in plays on African history, on colonialism and neo-colonialism. The final chapters argue that the form of African drama needs to evolve as the content does.

World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre

Author : Ousmane Diakhate
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136359494
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre written by Ousmane Diakhate and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback for the first time this edition of the World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre series examines theatrical developments in Africa since 1945. Entries on thirty-two African countries are featured in this volume, preceded by specialist introductory essays on Anglophone Africa, Francophone Africa, History and Culture, Cosmology, Music, Dance, Theatre for Young Audiences and Puppetry. There are also special introductory general essays on African theatre written by Nobel Prize Laureate Wole Soyinka and the outstanding Congolese playwright, Sony Labou Tansi, before his untimely death in 1995. More up-to-date and more wide-ranging than any other publication, this is undoubtedly a major ground-breaking survey of contemporary African theatre.

African Drama & Theatre

Author : Charles Kebaya
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789966011763
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book African Drama & Theatre written by Charles Kebaya and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The contributors to this text investigate the developments of African drama and theatre from the pre-colonial period to the present ... [in] a rich collection of essays that cover a wide range of topics such as the concept and nature of traditional African drama and theatre, African aesthetics in traditional African drama and theatre, re-appropriation of the African aesthetic in modern African drama, the growth and development of Kenyan drama and theatre, theatre for development in East Africa, and minimalism as a theatrical strategy in Athol Fugard's plays."--Back cover.