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Rethinking Folk Drama (Hardcover, New)
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Rethinking Folk Drama (Hardcover, New)
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Traditions of folk drama exist throughout the world, ranging from
simple forms that involve few people, rudimentary texts, and crude
performance practices, to complex forms involving entire towns,
highly elaborated texts, and performance practices that have
developed over hundreds of years. Yet folk drama lacks, to this
day, a full-length study from the perspectives of either
folkloristics or drama studies. This work seeks to fill that lack
by undertaking a bi-disciplinary study of the idea of folk drama,
drawing on examples from around the world, including Yangge
(China), Ta'ziyeh (Iran), Bhavai (India), Karagoz (Turkey), Apidan
(Nigeria), and the Mummers' Play (England). It examines the
meanings of "folk" and "drama," the significance of ritual and
performance in folk drama, the frequently encountered problem of
Eurocentric bias, the conventional tripartite division of drama
into elite, popular, and folk categories, the need for a
methodology capable of describing all aspects of folk drama
performance, and the taxonomic place of folk drama in both
folkloristics and drama studies. On the basis of this examination,
Rethinking Folk Drama establishes a new basis for understanding the
ubiquity and variety of folk drama.
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