Linda Cimardi

Performing Arts and Gender in Postcolonial Western Uganda

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Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on runyege, the main traditional performance genre of the Banyoro and Batooro people, this book explores the entanglement of traditional music, dance, and theater with gender and postcolonialism in Western Uganda.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781648250323
• ISBN-10: 1648250327
• Artikelnr.: 67574593

Autorenporträt

LINDA CIMARDI is Principal Investigator of the DFG-funded research project "Black Musics in the (Former) Yugoslav Region" based at Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg (Germany)

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Foreword by Samuel Kahunde Acknowledgments Note on
Language Note on the Musical Examples Note on Online Audio and Video
Material Prelude: Encountering Local Culture in Western Uganda
Introduction: Approaching Gender and Performing Arts in Bunyoro and Tooro 1
"Traditional Dance Preserves Culture and Shows People How to Behave":
Runyege, MDD, and Gender 2 Singing Marriage, Runyege, and Labor 3 "Women
Aren't Supposed to": Instrument Playing in the Past and Today 4 Shaking the
Hips, Stamping the Feet: The Runyege Dance 5 Narrating and Representing
Local Culture: Theater in Songs and Dances 6 Trans-Performing and Morality
in Cultural Groups Postlude: Gendering Culture Appendix I. Glossary of
Terms in Runyoro-Rutooro Appendix II. Historical Recordings from Bunyoro
and Tooro Author's Interviews References Index