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African Theatre 19 - Opera & Music Theatre (Hardcover)
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African Theatre 19 - Opera & Music Theatre (Hardcover)
Series: African Theatre
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Compelling inside views of what characterises opera and music
theatre in African and African diasporic contexts. Music is often
cited as a central artistic mode in African theatre and performance
practices. However, little attention has been paid to music theatre
on the continent in general, and to opera in particular, with the
exceptions ofa few noted genres, such as Concert Party or the
Yorùbá "folk opera" of the 1960s, and the emerging research on
opera culture in South Africa. This volume of African Theatre
highlights the diversity across the continent from a variety of
perspectives - including those of genre, media, and historiography.
Above all, it raises questions and encourages debate: What does
"opera" mean in African and African diasporic contexts? What are
its practices and legacies - colonial, postcolonial and decolonial;
what is its relation to the intersectionalities of race and class?
How do opera and music theatre reflect, change or obscure social,
political and economic realities? How are they connected to
educational and cultural institutions, and non-profit
organisations? And why is opera contradictorily, at various times,
perceived as both "grand" and "elitist, "folk" and "quotidian",
"Eurocentric" and "indigenous"? Contributors also address aesthetic
transformation processes, the porousness of genre boundaries and
the role of space and place, with examples ranging from Egypt to
South Africa, from Uganda to West Africa and the USA. The
playscript in this volume is We Take Care of Our Own by Zainabu
Jallo GUEST EDITORS: Christine Matzke, Lena van der Hoven,
Christopher Odhiambo & Hilde Roos Series Editors: Yvette
Hutchison, Reader, Department of Theatre & Performance Studies,
University of Warwick; Chukwuma Okoye, Reader in African Theatre
& Performance University of Ibadan; Jane Plastow, Professor of
African Theatre, University of Leeds.
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