Performing The Nation

Author : Kelly Askew
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002-07-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226029818

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Performing the Nation by Kelly Askew Pdf

Since its founding in 1964, the United Republic of Tanzania has used music, dance, and other cultural productions as ways of imagining and legitimizing the new nation. Focusing on the politics surrounding Swahili musical performance, Kelly Askew demonstrates the crucial role of popular culture in Tanzania's colonial and postcolonial history. As Askew shows, the genres of ngoma (traditional dance), dansi (urban jazz), and taarab (sung Swahili poetry) have played prominent parts in official articulations of "Tanzanian National Culture" over the years. Drawing on over a decade of research, including extensive experience as a taarab and dansi performer, Askew explores the intimate relations among musical practice, political ideology, and economic change. She reveals the processes and agents involved in the creation of Tanzania's national culture, from government elites to local musicians, poets, wedding participants, and traffic police. Throughout, Askew focuses on performance itself—musical and otherwise—as key to understanding both nation-building and interpersonal power dynamics.

Author : Ananda Breed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Gacaca justice system
ISBN : 0857421085

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Performing the Nation by Ananda Breed Pdf

Rwanda: history and legend -- Performing justice: Gacaca, Frankfurt Auschwitz trials and the TRC -- Gacaca courts as Kubabarira: testimony, justice and reconciliation -- Reconciliation and the limits of empathy: grassroots associations -- Ukuri Mubinyoma (Truth in Lies): the performativity of rape and gender-based violence -- Transnational approaches to memorials and commemorations: crisis of witnessing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789047443629

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Performing "Nation" by Anonim Pdf

Uniquely covering literary, visual and performative expressions of culture, this volume aims to correlate the conjunctions of nation building, gender and representation in late 19th and early 20th century China and Japan.

Author : Rachel Tsang,Eric Taylor Woods
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134592081

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The Cultural Politics of Nationalism and Nation-Building by Rachel Tsang,Eric Taylor Woods Pdf

Rituals and performances are a key theme in the study of nations and nationalism. With the aim of stimulating further research in this area, this book explores, debates and evaluates the role of rituals and performances in the emergence, persistence and transformation of nations, nationalisms and national identity. The chapters comprising this book investigate a diverse array of contemporary and historical phenomena relating to the symbolic life of nations, from the Yasukuni Shrine in Japan to the Louvre in France, written by an interdisciplinary cast of world-renowned and up-and-coming scholars. Each of the contributors has been encouraged to think about how his or her particular approach and methods relates to the others. This has given rise to several recurring debates and themes running through the book over how researchers ought to approach rituals and performances and how they might best be studied. The Cultural Politics of Nationalism and Nation-Building will appeal to students and scholars of ethnicity and nationalism, sociology, political science, anthropology, cultural studies, performance studies, art history and architecture.

Author : N. Rossol
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230274778

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Performing the Nation in Interwar Germany by N. Rossol Pdf

Performing the Nation in Interwar Germany argues that political aesthetics and mass spectacles were no invention of the Nazis but characterized the period from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s. In so doing, it re-examines the role of state representation and propaganda in the Weimar Republic and the Nazi dictatorship.

Author : Jörgen Hellman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Ethnicity
ISBN : OCLC:756209910

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Author : Susan Anita Reed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Dance
ISBN : UCSD:31822036454445

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Dance and the Nation by Susan Anita Reed Pdf

Around the globe, dances that originate in village, temple, and court rituals have been adapted and transformed to carry secular meanings and serve new national purposes. In stage performances, dance competitions, and festivals worldwide, dance has become an emblem of ethnicity and an index of national identity. But what are the "backstage" stories of those dances, and what have been the consequences for their communities of origin? In Dance and the Nation, Susan A. Reed brings to light the complexities of aesthetic politics in a multi-faceted exploration and analysis of the Kandyan dance of Sri Lanka. The dance, which is identified with the island's majority Sinhala ethnic group, is heavily supported by the state. Derived from the Kohomba kankariya, an elaborate village ritual performed by men of the hereditary drummer caste, the dance was adopted by the state as a symbol of traditional Sinhala culture in the postindependence period and opened to individuals of all castes. Reed's evocative account traces the history and consequences of this transition from ritual to stage, situating the dance in relation to postcolonial nationalism and ethnic politics and emphasizing the voices and perspectives of the hereditary dancers and women performers. Kandyan dance is characterized by an elegant and energetic style and lively displays of agility. The companion DVD includes unparalleled footage of this vibrant dance in ritual, stage, and training contexts, and features the most esteemed performers of the Kandyan region.

Author : Tim Ryan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781401939304

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A Mindful Nation by Tim Ryan Pdf

Originally published: Carlsbad, Calif.: Hay House, 2012.

Author : Naila Keleta-Mae
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771124812

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Performing Female Blackness by Naila Keleta-Mae Pdf

Performing Female Blackness examines race, gender, and nation in Black life using critical race, feminist and performance studies methodologies. This book examines what private and public performances of female blackness reveal about race, gender, and nation and considers how the land widely known as Canada shapes these performances. By exploring Black expressive culture in familial, literary, and performance settings, Naila Keleta-Mae theorizes that “perpetual performance” forces people who are read as female and Black to always be figuratively on stage regardless of cultural, political, or historical contexts. Written in poetry, prose, and journal form and drawing from the author’s own life and artistic works, Performing Female Blackness is ideal not only for scholars, educators, and students of the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts but also for artists and the general public too.

Author : Mirca Madianou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136611056

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Mediating the Nation by Mirca Madianou Pdf

What does it mean to watch two-hour long news programmes every evening? Why are some people 'addicted' to the news while others prefer to switch off? Television is an indispensable part of the fabric of modern life and this book investigates a facet of this process: its impact on the ways that we experience the political entity of the nation and our national and transnational identities. Drawing on anthropological, social and media theory and grounded on a two-year original ethnography of television news viewing in Athens, the book offers a fresh, interdisciplinary perspective in understanding the media/identity relationship. Starting from a perspective that examines identities as lived and as performed, the book follows the circulation of discourses about the nation and belonging and contrasts the articulation of identities at a local level with the discourses about the nation in the national television channels. The book asks: whether, and in what ways does television influence identity discourses and practices? When do people contest the official discourses about the nation and when do they rely on them? Do the media play a role in relation to inclusion and exclusion from public life, particularly in the case of minorities? The book presents a compelling account of the contradictory and ambivalent nature of national and transnational identities while developing a nuanced approach to media power. It is argued that although the media do not shape identities in a causal way, they do contribute in creating common communicative spaces which often catalyse feelings of belonging or exclusion. The book claims a place in the emerging sub-field of media anthropology and represents the new generation of audience research that places media consumption in the wider social, economic and political context.

Author : Laura Edmondson
Publisher : African Expressive Cultures
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015064954038

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Performance and Politics in Tanzania by Laura Edmondson Pdf

In Performance and Politics in Tanzania, Laura Edmondson examines how politics, social values, and gender are expressed on stage. Now a disappearing tradition, Tanzanian popular theatre integrates comic sketches, acrobatics, melodrama, song, and dance to produce lively commentaries on what it means to be Tanzanian. These dynamic shows invite improvisation and spontaneous and raucous audience participation as they explore popular sentiments. Edmondson asserts that these performances overturn the boundary between official and popular art and offer a new way of thinking about African popular culture. She discusses how the blurring of state agendas and local desires presents a charged environment for the exploration of Tanzanian political and social realities: What is the meaning of democracy and who gets to define it? Who is in power, and how is power exposed or concealed? What is the role of tradition in a postsocialist state? How will the future of the nation be negotiated? This engaging book provides important insight into the complexity of popular forms of expression during a time of political and social change in East Africa.

Author : Ana Arjona,Nelson Kasfir,Zachariah Mampilly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781316432389

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Rebel Governance in Civil War by Ana Arjona,Nelson Kasfir,Zachariah Mampilly Pdf

This is the first book to examine and compare how rebels govern civilians during civil wars in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Drawing from a variety of disciplinary traditions, including political science, sociology, and anthropology, the book provides in-depth case studies of specific conflicts as well as comparative studies of multiple conflicts. Among other themes, the book examines why and how some rebels establish both structures and practices of rule, the role of ideology, cultural, and material factors affecting rebel governance strategies, the impact of governance on the rebel/civilian relationship, civilian responses to rebel rule, the comparison between modes of state and non-state governance to rebel attempts to establish political order, the political economy of rebel governance, and the decline and demise of rebel governance attempts.

Author : Matt Cornish
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472037568

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Performing Unification by Matt Cornish Pdf

Since the moment after the fall of the Berlin Wall, important German theater artists have created plays and productions about unification. Some have challenged how German history is written, while others opposed the very act of storytelling. Performing Unification examines how directors, playwrights, and theater groups including Heiner Müller, Frank Castorf, and Rimini Protokoll have represented and misrepresented the past, confronting their nation’s history and collective identity. Matt Cornish surveys German-language history plays from the Baroque period through the documentary theater movement of the 1960s to show how German identity has always been contested, then turns to performances of unification after 1989. Cornish argues that theater, in its structures and its live gestures, on pages, stages, and streets, helps us to understand the past and its effect on us, our relationships with others in our communities, and our futures. Engaging with theater theory from Aristotle through Bertolt Brecht and Hans-Thies Lehmann’s “postdramatic” theater, and with theories of history from Hegel to Walter Benjamin and Hayden White, Performing Unification demonstrates that historiography and dramaturgy are intertwined.

Author : Nadine Holdsworth,Nicholas Hytner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137013774

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Theatre and Nation by Nadine Holdsworth,Nicholas Hytner Pdf

How has theatre engaged with the nation-state and helped to formulate national identities? What impact have migration and globalisation had on the relationship between theatre and nation? Theatre & Nation explores how theatre institutions, playwrights, theatre-makers and performance artists engage with the nation, nationalism and national identity in their work. The book argues that theatrical representations of the nation are constantly in flux and that the way theatre engages with the nation changes according to different geographical, political, economic, social and cultural circumstances. Foreword by Nicholas Hytner.

Author : Jürgen Heideking,Geneviève Fabre,Kai Dreisbach
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1571812377

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Celebrating Ethnicity and Nation by Jürgen Heideking,Geneviève Fabre,Kai Dreisbach Pdf

Arising out of the context of the re-configuration of Europe, new perspectives are applied by the authors of this volume to the process of nation-building in the United States. By focusing on a variety of public celebrations and festivities from the Revolution to the early twentieth century, the formative period of American national identity, the authors reveal the complex interrelationships between collective identities on the local, regional, and national level which, over time, shaped the peculiar character of American nationalism. This volume combines vivid descriptions of various public celebrations with a sophisticated methodological and theoretical approach.