Jesse Weaver Shipley

Trickster Theatre

The Poetics of Freedom in Urban Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

Jesse Weaver Shipley is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Haverford College. He is author of Living the Hiplife: Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music and has produced a documentary film with the same title.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780253016539
• ISBN-10: 0253016533
• Artikelnr.: 41610188

Autorenporträt

Jesse Weaver Shipley

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Poetics of Uncertainty
Part I. History and Mediations in Making Theatre
1. Making Culture: Race, History, and a Theory of Performance in the Gold
Coast Colony
2. The National Theatre Movement: Urban Art Infrastructures and a Contested
National Culture in Independence-Era Accra
3. Revolutionary Storytelling: Pan-African Theatre and Remaking Lost
Futures in 1980s Ghana
4. A Man of the People: Mohammed Ben Abdallah as Artist-Politician
Part II. Stagings in Millennial Ghana
5. Total African Theatre: Language, Reflexivity, and Ambiguity in The Witch
of Mopti
6. "The Best Tradition Goes On": Audience, Consumption, and the Structural
Transformation of Concert Party Popular Theatre
7. Fake Pastors and Real Comedians: Doubling and Parody in Miraculous,
Charismatic Performance
8. Copying Independence: Backstage at the Fiftieth-Anniversary Reenactment
of Nkrumah's Independence Speech
Conclusion: Unfreedom as Critical Theory
Notes
Bibliography
Index