Popular Culture And Performance In South Africa
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Popular Culture and Performance in South Africa
Author | : Ian Steadman |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Black theater |
ISBN | : IND:30000000814156 |
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Politics and Performance
Author | : Elizabeth Gunner |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1868142140 |
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This volume is a collection of essays that explore aspects of popular culture in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Zambia. These writings examine such topics as the degree of state control over theatre, the interaction - or lack of it - between high and popular culture, the struggle to define meaningful cultural forms in the wake of a dominating and exclusive colonial culture and the contribution of women. What emerges is a strong sense of regional concerns shared by the Southern African cultures under discussion, the contributors also give voice to crucial differences and debates on the nature of contemporary theatre and performance and the links with popular culture, politics and nation.
Theatre Change in South Africa
Author | : Geoffrey Davis,Anne Fuchs |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2020-04-27 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781134362974 |
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First Published in 1997. Can South African theatre continue to maintain its autonomy and exercise its critical role? Can one rethink form and find new content? Can a concept of post-protest theatre be developed? How might theatre contribute to post-apartheid soceity? These are just of the questions addressed in this book. The real and present difficulties South Africian theatre is facing, as well as possible future orientations, are clearly shown, at one of the most complex moments of political transition in the history of the South African society. The authors include contributions from playwrights, actors, visual artists, poets, directors, administrators, critics and theatre academics. Their comments and thoughts portray the active process of reflection and reappraisal, redefining their artistic and political aims, searching for new and vital theatrical forms.
Theatre Performance and New Media in Africa
Author | : Susan Arndt,Eckhard Breitinger |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : UOM:39015074250419 |
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Women Politics and Performance in South African Theatre Today
Author | : Lizbeth Goodman |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2012-10-02 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781135298845 |
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First published in 1999, 'Women, Politics and Performance in South African Theatre Today' is an important contribution to Performance.
Africans and the Politics of Popular Culture
Author | : Toyin Falola,Augustine Agwuele |
Publsiher | : University Rochester Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781580463317 |
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Explores the instrumentalization of various aspects of popular culture in Africa.
Youth and Popular Culture in Africa
Author | : Paul Ugor |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781648250248 |
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"The edited collection focuses on the links between young people and African popular culture. It explores popular culture produced and consumed by young people in contemporary Africa. And by "culture," we mean all kinds of texts or representations-visual, oral, written, performative, fictional, social, and virtual-created by African youth, mostly about their lives and their immediate societies, and for themselves, but also consumed by the larger public, and shared locally and globally. We proceed from the premise that cultural texts not only function as "social facts" as Karin Barber argues, but that they double as "commentaries upon, and interpretations of, social facts. They are part of social reality, but they also take up an attitude to social reality" (2007, 04). So, the work focuses specifically on what African youth produce as popular culture, under what conditions or contexts they produce such work, how they produce those texts, why they produce them, the aesthetic dimensions of these texts as cultural artifacts, and why these textual practices matter as social facts, as interpretive acts, and as cultural symbols of the general cultural activism of young people in a rapidly changing world, a world where the global cultural economy is the prime terrain for the relentless struggles over the meanings that come to shape political-economic and social systems"--
Popular Culture in Africa
Author | : Stephanie Newell,Onookome Okome |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2013-11-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781135068943 |
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This volume marks the 25th anniversary of Karin Barber’s ground-breaking article, "Popular Arts in Africa", which stimulated new debates about African popular culture and its defining categories. Focusing on performances, audiences, social contexts and texts, contributors ask how African popular cultures contribute to the formation of an episteme. With chapters on theater, Nollywood films, blogging, and music and sports discourses, as well as on popular art forms, urban and youth cultures, and gender and sexuality, the book highlights the dynamism and complexity of contemporary popular cultures in sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on the streets of Africa, especially city streets where different cultures and cultural personalities meet, the book asks how the category of "the people" is identified and interpreted by African culture-producers, politicians, religious leaders, and by "the people" themselves. The book offers a nuanced, strongly historicized perspective in which African popular cultures are regarded as vehicles through which we can document ordinary people’s vitality and responsiveness to political and social transformations.