African Performance Arts and Political Acts Andre Naomi
African Performance Arts and Political Acts Andre Naomi African Performance Arts and Political Actspresents innovative formulations for how African performance and the arts shape the narratives of…
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African Performance Arts and Political Acts Andre Naomi
African Performance Arts and Political Actspresents innovative formulations for how African performance and the arts shape the narratives of cultural history and politics. The spaces include village communities, city landscapes, prisons, urban hostels, Township theaters, opera houses, and broadcasts through the airwaves on television and radio as well as in cyberspace. This collection, edited by Naomi Andr , Yolanda Covington-Ward, and Jendele Hungbo, engages with a breadth of African countries and art forms, bringing together speech, hip hop, religious healing and gesture, theater and social justice, opera, radio announcements, protest songs, and migrant workers' dances.
Essays focus on case studies from Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and
African Political Thought