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Performing Africa : remixing tradition, theatre, and culture
- Title
- Performing Africa : remixing tradition, theatre, and culture / Thomas Riccio.
- Author
- Riccio, Thomas.
- Publication
- New York : Peter Lang, [2007], ©2007.
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- Description
- xii, 238 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Performing Africa is a collection of essays on contemporary Africa performance. From 1992 to 2002. Thomas Riccio worked with several groups in South Africa, Zambia, Tanzania, West Africa, and Kenya - the Zulu and the !Xuu Bushmen of the Kalahari, among them Performing Africa combines a rare in-the-field perspective with a keen insight into Africa's transformative and tumultuous confluence of tradition, urbanization, politics, history, and the AIDS crisis."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-232) and index.
- Contents
- (Re) mixing place, culture and performance -- Emandulo : process and performance in a changing South Africa -- Politics, slapstick and zulus on tour -- In Zambia, performing the spirits -- The !Xuu and Khwe Bushmen -- Tanzania theatre from Marx to the marketplace -- Being African, acting French -- Community health awareness puppets in Kenya -- Trickster by trade : Thomas Riccio on indigenous theatre.
- ISBN
- 9780820488998 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0820488992 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006035131
- OCLC
- ocm74915528
- 74915528
- SCSB-5316931
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries