Catherine M. Cole

Ghana's Concert Party Theatre

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Produktbeschreibung

Catherine M. Cole is Associate Professor in the Department of Dramatic Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has published numerous articles on African theatre and has collaborated with filmmaker Nathan Kwame Braun on "passing girl; riverside," a video essay on the ethical dilemmas of visual anthropology.

Produktdetails

• Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 154mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780253214362
• ISBN-10: 025321436X
• Artikelnr.: 21006219

Autorenporträt

Catherine M. Cole is Associate Professor in the Department of Dramatic Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has published numerous articles on African theatre and has collaborated with filmmaker Nathan Kwame Braun on "passing girl; riverside," a video essay on the ethical dilemmas of visual anthropology.

Inhaltsangabe

Preliminary Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Note on Orthography
1. Introduction
2. Reading Blackface in West Africa: Wonders Taken for Signs
3. "The Rowdy Lot Created the Usual Disturbance": Concerts and Emergent
Publics, 1895-1927
4. "Ohia Ma Adwennwen," or "Use Your Gumption!": The Pragmatics of
Performance, 1927- 1945
5. Improvising Popular Traveling Theatre: The Poetics of Invention
6. "This is Actually a Good Interpretation of Modern Civilization": Staging
the Social Imaginary, 1946-1966
Notes
Bibliography