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African performance arts and political acts / editors: Naomi Andre, Yolanda Covington-Ward, Jendele Hungbo - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2021. - 279 stron : ilustracje ; 24 cm.

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Andre Naomi Covington-Ward Yolanda Hungbo Jendele

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Sztuka Polityka Performance Afryka

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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 André, 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.

African Performance Arts and Political Acts przedstawia innowacyjne sformułowania dotyczące tego, jak afrykański performans i sztuka kształtują narracje historii kultury i polityki. Ta kolekcja, zredagowana przez Naomi André, Yolandę Covington-Ward i Jendele Hungbo, obejmuje szeroką gamę krajów afrykańskich i form sztuki, łącząc mowę, hip hop, uzdrawianie religijne i gestykulację, teatr i sprawiedliwość społeczną, operę, ogłoszenia radiowe, pieśni protestacyjne i tańce robotników migrujących. Przestrzenie obejmują społeczności wiejskie, krajobrazy miast, więzienia, schroniska miejskie, teatry miejskie, opery oraz transmisje telewizyjne i radiowe, a także w cyberprzestrzeni. Eseje koncentrują się na studiach przypadków z Kamerunu, Demokratycznej Republiki Konga, Nigerii, Senegalu, Republiki Południowej Afryki i Tanzanii.

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Introduction: Performance and politics in Africa: Approaches and perspectives / Naomi Andre, Yolanda Covington-Ward, and Jendele Hungbo The play of social and political roles in everyday life Performing political identities: Senegalese speakers and their audiences (Senegal) / Judith T. Irvine, University of Michigan The socio-poetics of Sanakuyaagal: Performing joking relationships in West Africa (Senegal) / Nikolas Sweet, Grinnell College Participation beyond gratitude: "Sterling greetings" and the mediation of social ties on Nigerian radio (Nigeria) / Jendele Hungbo, Bowen University (Iwo, Nigeria) Expression of identity, consciousness, and migration The phenomenology of collapsing worlds: isiShameni dance and the politics of proximity in Jeppestown, Johannesburg (South Africa) / Thomas M. Pooley, University of South Africa African heritage revealed through musical encounters and political ideologies: John Fredreick Matheus and Clarence Cameron White's Ouanga! And Reuben Tholakele Caluza and Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo's Moshoeshoe (South Africa) / Innocentia Jabulisile Mhlambi, University of the Witwatersrand Discussing the play Angalia Ni Mimi!, and a performance by the playwright, Marthe Djilo Kamga (Cameroon) / Frieda Ekotto, University of Michigan Angalia Ni Mimi! Therapy of a thwarted artist A play by Marthe Djilo Kamga (Cameroon) / Marthe Djilo Kamga (an independent artist) Gendered messages of social change Surviving gender violence: Activating community stories for social change (South Africa) / Anita Gonzalez, Georgetown University Gangsters, masculinity, and ethics: Underground rapping in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) / David Kerr, University of Birmingham and university of Johannesburg Songs of protest and activist opera Seditious songs: Spirituality as performance and political action in colonial-era Belgian Congo (Democratic republic of the Congo) / Yolanda Covington-Ward, University of Pittsburgh Activist operatic space depicting reality: Puccini's La Boheme becomes breathe Umphefumlo (South Africa) / Naomi Andre, University of Michigan The intrinsic power of songs sung during protests at South African institutions of higher learning (South Africa) / Nompumelelo Zondi, University of Pretoria