Research Catalog

Title

Performing arts and gender in postcolonial western Uganda / Linda Cimardi.

Author

Cimardi, Linda

Publication

• Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Description

xxiii, 277 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm.

Summary

"Drawing on archival research and extensive fieldwork in the regions of Bunyoro and Tooro, Linda Cimardi examines the connection between traditional performing arts and gender in Western Uganda. The book focuses on runyege, the main genre of the Banyoro and Batooro people, exploring its different components of singing, instrument playing, dancing, and acting and identifying their complex relationships to gender models and expressions. Today mainly performed at Ugandan school festivals and by semiprofessional ensembles, repertoires like runyege adhere to stage conventions that have developed over several decades. Some of these conventions are powerful devices allowing the actors involved (performers, teachers, students, adjudicators, and audiences) to collectively shape an image of local culture grounded in a gender notion that is perceived as traditional. At the same time, stage conventions are exploited by some performers to negotiate their gender identities and expressions in unconventional ways, thus challenging hegemonic gender models. Examining traditional arts as both the manifestation and the building blocks of local culture, the book vibrantly depicts the imbrication of Ugandan performing arts with gender and postcolonialism"--

Series Statement

Eastman/Rochester studies in ethnomusicology, 2161-0290 ; vol.14

Uniform Title

Eastman/Rochester studies in ethnomusicology ; v. 14.

Subject

• Ethnomusicology > Uganda
• Performing arts > Uganda
• Gender identity in music
• Gender identity in dance
• Ethnomusicology
• Performing arts
• Uganda

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

"Traditional dance preserves culture and shows people how to behave": Runyege, MDD, and gender -- Singing marriage, Runyege, and labor -- "Women aren't supposed to": instrument playing in the past and today -- Shaking the hips, stamping the feet. The Runyege dance -- Narrating and representing local culture: theater in songs and dances -- Trans-performing and morality in cultural groups -- Postlude: gendering culture -- Appendix I. Historical recordings from Bunyoro and Tooro -- Appendix II. Glossary of terms in Runyoro-Rutooro -- Author's interviews.

Call Number

ReCAP 23-8451

ISBN

• 9781648250323
• 1648250327

LCCN

2023008414

OCLC

1370219050

Author

Cimardi, Linda, author.

Title

Performing arts and gender in postcolonial western Uganda / Linda Cimardi.

Publisher

Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Eastman/Rochester studies in ethnomusicology, 2161-0290 ; vol.14

Eastman/Rochester studies in ethnomusicology ; v. 14.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Cimardi, Linda. Performing arts and gender in postcolonial western Uganda Rochester : University of Rochester Press, 2023 9781805430643 (DLC) 2023008415

Research Call Number

ReCAP 23-8451