Paul Schauert

Staging Ghana (eBook, ePUB)

Artistry and Nationalism in State Dance Ensembles

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Ghana Dance Ensemble takes Ghana's national culture and interprets it in performance using authentic dance forms adapted for local or foreign audiences. Often, says Paul Schauert, the aims of the ensemble and the aims of the individual performers work in opposition. Schauert discusses the history of the dance troupe and its role in Ghana's post-independence nation-building strategy and illustrates how the nation's culture makes its way onto the stage. He argues that as dancers negotiate the terrain of what is or is not authentic, they also find ways to express their personal aspirations, discovering, within the framework of nationalism or collective identity, that there is considerable room to reform national ideals through individual virtuosity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780253017499
• Artikelnr.: 63343868

Autorenporträt

Paul Schauert is a lecturer in Ethnomusicology at Oakland University (Michigan).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
List of PURL Audio and Video Files
Introduction: Crossing Crocodiles and Staging Ethnography
1. Beyond Ethnicity, Beyond Ghana: Staging and Embodying African
Personality
2. Dancing Essences: Sensational Staging and the Cosmopolitan Politics of
Authentication
3. Soldiers of Culture: Discipline, Artistry, and Alternative Education
4. Speak to the Wind: Staging the State and Performing Indirection
5. "We are the Originals!": A Tale of Two Troupes and the Birth of
Contemporary Dance in Ghana
6. Politics of Personality: Creativity, Competition, and Self-Expression
within a Unitary Matrix
Conclusion: Dancing Between Self, State, and Nation
Notes
References and Bibliography
Index