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Performance and Politics in Tanzania: The Nation on Stage

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Description for Performance and Politics in Tanzania: The Nation on Stage Paperback. An insight into the meaning and value of popular forms of expression during a time of political and social change in East Africa. Series: African Expressive Cultures. Num Pages: 192 pages, 20 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1HFGT; GTB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 163 x 14. Weight in Grams: 310.

In Performance and Politics in Tanzania, Laura Edmondson examines how politics, social values, and gender are expressed on stage. Now a disappearing tradition, Tanzanian popular theatre integrates comic sketches, acrobatics, melodrama, song, and dance to produce lively commentaries on what it means to be Tanzanian. These dynamic shows invite improvisation and spontaneous and raucous audience participation as they explore popular sentiments. Edmondson asserts that these performances overturn the boundary between official and popular art and offer a new way of thinking about African popular culture. She discusses how the blurring of state agendas and local desires presents a charged environment ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
African Expressive Cultures
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253219121
SKU
V9780253219121
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About Laura Edmondson
Laura Edmondson is an assistant professor of theatre studies at Dartmouth College.

Reviews for Performance and Politics in Tanzania: The Nation on Stage
. . . Edmondson's book is a significant study for Africanists, anthropologists, and post-socialist scholars looking to identify the way the artists, the state, and audiences negotiate and interpret meaning in public performances. It is also an important contribution to the limited academic writing on the theatre arts in Tanzania.
Journal of Folklore Research
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