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Author : Biodun Jeyifo
Publisher : Lagos : Department of Culture, Federal Ministry of Social Development, Youth, Sports & Culture
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Nigeria
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038239807
Author : Tola Adeniyi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Popular culture
ISBN : 155255001X
Author : Karin Barber
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Slave trade
ISBN : 0253338077
From the 1940s to the 1980s, Yoruba popular theater was one of the most spectacularly successful theaters in Africa. Today, these traveling companies have virtually disappeared, largely as a result of economic hardship and the rise of video entertainment. In The Generation of Plays, Karin Barber recounts the history of the Oyin Adejobi Theatre company. Drawing on archival sources as well as extensive interviews and transcriptions of plays, Barber uncovers the pulse points of generation, production, and improvisation that merge when a Yoruba popular drama is brought to the stage. Barber reveals the personalities of the principal actors, how plays are created (from the germ of an idea through the logistics of rehearsal and staging), how a play is made meaningful to its audience, and how a play changes and develops after several productions or according to the sensibilities of its viewers. This rich and detailed narrative illuminates notions of gender, language, politics, and self as they are expressed in a popular cultural form.
Author : Foluke Ogunleye
Publisher : Integritas Services
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : African drama
ISBN : 9783626671
Building on earlier works on the African video film movement this book discusses: The Dynamics of Finance in the Nigerian Traveling Theatre; Christian Morality Plays in Nigeria; Television Docudrama as Alternative Records of History; Nigerian Tele-Drama and Propaganda; Money and Mercantilism in Nigerian Historical Plays; History of the Ori Olokun Theatre; and The Socio-Economic Construct of the Nigerian Home Video Film.
Author : Joel Adeyinka Adedeji
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Nigerian drama (English)
ISBN : IND:30000060905670
Author : Sola Adeyemi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781527537965
Fémi Òsófisan is a major dramatist from Nigeria who experiments with forms and theatrical traditions. This book focuses on his development as a dramatist and his contribution to world drama as a postcolonial African writer whose major preoccupation has been to question the colonial and postcolonial issues of identity in theatre, literature and performance. The volume explores how Òsófisan exploits his Yorùbá heritage in his drama and the performances of his plays by reading new meanings into popular mythology, and by re-writing history to comment on contemporary social and political issues. Òsófisan has often introduced new motifs and narratives to energise dramatic performances in Nigeria and globally, and this text discusses developments in his theatre practices in the context of changing cultural trends.
Author : Claire Cochrane,Jo Robinson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350034303
The Methuen Drama Handbook of Theatre History and Historiography is an authoritative guide to contemporary debates and practices in this field. The book covers the key themes and methods that are current in theatre history research, with a particular focus on expanding the object of study to include engagement with theatre and performance practices and the development of theatre histories around the world. Central to the book are eighteen specially commissioned essays by established and emerging scholars from a wide range of international contexts, whose discussion of individual case studies is predicated on their understanding and experience of their 'local' landscape of theatre history. These essays reveal where important work continues to be done in the field and, most valuably, draws on academic contexts beyond the Western academy to expand our knowledge of the exciting directions that such an approach opens up. Prefaced by an introduction tracing the development of the discipline of theatre history and changing historiographical approaches, the Handbook explores current issues pertaining to theatre and performance history research, as well as providing up to date and robust introductions to the methods and historiographic questions being explored by researchers in the field. Featuring a series of essential research tools, including a detailed list of resources and an annotated bibliography of key texts, this is an indispensable scholarly handbook for anyone working in theatre and performance history and historiography.
Author : Jonathan Haynes
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 9780896802117
Nigerian video films--dramatic features shot on video and sold as cassettes--are being produced at the rate of nearly one a day, making them the major contemporary art form in Nigeria. The history of African film offers no precedent for such a huge, popularly based industry. The contributors to this volume, who include film and television directors, an anthropologist, and scholars of film studies and literature, take a variety of approaches to this flourishing popular art. Topics include aesthetic forms and distribution; the configurations of various ethnic audiences; the new media environment dominated by cassette technology; the video's materialism in a period of economic collapse; transformation of the traditional Yoruba traveling theater; individualism and the moral crisis in Igbo society; Hausa cultural values; the negotiation of gender roles, and the genre of Christian videos.
Author : Gareth Griffiths
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317895855
Here is an introduction to the history of English writing from East and West Africa drawing on a range of texts from the slave diaspora to the post-war upsurge in African English language and literature from these regions.
Author : Martin Banham,Errol Hill,George Woodyard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1994-08-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521411394
Comprehensive alphabetical guide to theatre in Africa and the Caribbean: national essays and entries on countries and performers.
Author : Ingrid Monson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317777250
The African Diaspora presents musical case studies from various regions of the African diaspora, including Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, North America, and Europe, that engage with broader interdisciplinary discussions about race, gender, politics, nationalism, and music. Featured here are jazz, wassoulou music, and popular and traditional musics of the Caribbean and Africa, framed with attention to the reciprocal relationships of the local and the global.
Author : Jane Plastow,Martin Banham
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781847010803
This volume takes as its starting point an interrogation of the African contributions to the Globe to Globe festival staged in London in 2012, where 37 Shakespeare productions were offered, each from a different nation. Five African companies were invited to perform and there are articles on four of these productions, examining issues of interculturalism, postcolonialism, language, interpretation and reception. The contributors are both Shakespeare and African theatre scholars, promoting discourse from a range of geographical and cultural perspectives. A critical debate about the process of the Globe to Globe festival is initiated in the form of a discussion article featuring some of its directors and actors. Two further articles look at Shakespeare productions made purely for Africa, from Mauritius and Cape Verde, and leading Nigerian playwright and cultural commentator Femi Osofisan provides an overview article examining Shakespeare in Africa in the 21st century. The playscript in this volume of African Theatre is Femi Osofisan's Wesoo, Hamlet or the Resurrection of Hamlet. Volume Editor: JANE PLASTOW Series Editors: Martin Banham, Emeritus Professor of Drama & Theatre Studies, University of Leeds; James Gibbs, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, University of the West of England; Femi Osofisan, Professor of Drama at the University of Ibadan; Jane Plastow, Professor of African Theatre, University of Leeds; Yvette Hutchison, Associate Professor, Department of Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Warwick
Author : Mahir Şaul,Ralph A. Austen
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780821443507
African cinema in the 1960s originated mainly from Francophone countries. It resembled the art cinema of contemporary Europe and relied on support from the French film industry and the French state. Beginning in 1969 the biennial Festival panafricain du cinéma et de la télévision de Ouagadougou (FESPACO), held in Burkina Faso, became the major showcase for these films. But since the early 1990s, a new phenomenon has come to dominate the African cinema world: mass-marketed films shot on less expensive video cameras. These “Nollywood” films, so named because many originate in southern Nigeria, are a thriving industry dominating the world of African cinema. Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-first Century is the first book to bring together a set of essays offering a comparison of these two main African cinema modes. Contributors: Ralph A. Austen and Mahir Şaul, Jonathan Haynes, Onookome Okome, Birgit Meyer, Abdalla Uba Adamu, Matthias Krings, Vincent Bouchard, Laura Fair, Jane Bryce, Peter Rist, Stefan Sereda, Lindsey Green-Simms, and Cornelius Moore
Author : Sara Freeman
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780817371104
Rosemarie K. Bank and Michal Kobialka, eds., Theatre/Performance Historiography: Time, Space, Matter / Reviewed by Danny Devlin
Author : Ousmane Diakhate,Hansel Ndumbe Eyoh,Don Rubin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136359491
Now available in paperback for the first time this edition of the World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre series examines theatrical developments in Africa since 1945. Entries on thirty-two African countries are featured in this volume, preceded by specialist introductory essays on Anglophone Africa, Francophone Africa, History and Culture, Cosmology, Music, Dance, Theatre for Young Audiences and Puppetry. There are also special introductory general essays on African theatre written by Nobel Prize Laureate Wole Soyinka and the outstanding Congolese playwright, Sony Labou Tansi, before his untimely death in 1995. More up-to-date and more wide-ranging than any other publication, this is undoubtedly a major ground-breaking survey of contemporary African theatre.
