Paul SchauertStaging Ghana
Artistry and Nationalism in State Dance Ensembles
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
