Politics and Performance: Theatre, Poetry, and Song in Southern AfricaElizabeth Gunner Indiana University Press, 1994 - 293 pagina's This volume is a collection of essays that explore aspects of popular culture in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Zambia. These writings examine such topics as the degree of state control over theatre, the interaction - or lack of it - between high and popular culture, the struggle to define meaningful cultural forms in the wake of a dominating and exclusive colonial culture and the contribution of women. What emerges is a strong sense of regional concerns shared by the Southern African cultures under discussion, the contributors also give voice to crucial differences and debates on the nature of contemporary theatre and performance and the links with popular culture, politics and nation. |
Inhoudsopgave
Towards Popular Theatre in South Africa | 11 |
Apartheid and the Political Imagination in Black South African | 35 |
Trends in Zimbabwean Theatre Since 1980 | 55 |
Iluba Elimnyama a Bulawayo Theatre | 75 |
Female Migrant Performance | 81 |
Women as singers and actresses | 111 |
Traditions of Poetry in Natal | 139 |
Working Class | 163 |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Politics and Performance: Theatre, Poetry, and Song in Southern Africa Elizabeth Gunner Gedeeltelijke weergave - 1994 |
Politics and Performance: Theatre, Poetry and Song in Southern Africa Liz Gunner Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1995 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
apartheid areas articulation audience autobiography black consciousness Black Consciousness Movement black theatre Bulawayo Chifunyise Chiweshe colonial community-based theatre context contradictions created creative critical cultural activists dance Dark City Sisters Dhlomo discourse discussion dominant Dorothy Masuka drama Durban English example experience festival forms gender genre Gwala Harare hostels Ibid identity ideological independence issues Johannesburg kiba Kotze labour language Lebowa Lesotho liberation literature male Mapfumo Masuka Matapi mbira men's migrant Natal nationalist Nkosi oral participants play poetry police political popular theatre present problems production Rhodesia role rural scripted Shona singing Sitas social society songs Sotho South Africa Southern African Stella Chiweshe story structure of feeling struggle theatre artists theatre for development theatre groups theatre movement theatrical township traditional union University University of Zimbabwe urban Witwatersrand woman women singers women's kiba worker culture worker theatre workshop writing Zambia Zambian theatre Zimbabwe Zulu