African Theatre and Politics : : A Comparative Study.
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Superior document: | Cross/Cultures |
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Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : BRILL,, 1996. ©1996. |
Year of Publication: | 1996 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Cross/Cultures
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (318 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- 1 The Colonial Theatre
- The performance forms
- Dance-drama
- Drama
- Orature
- Pre-colonial literature
- Feudalism and communalism
- 2 Conformity, Christianity and Suppression: The Early Colonial Theatre
- Ethiopia
- Amhara imperialism
- The first plays
- The Italian occupation and after
- Tanganyika
- Formation and colonization
- The development of indigenous theatre forms
- Colonial cultural forms
- Drama
- Southern Rhodesia
- Colonization: from 1890 to 1965
- The repression of indigenous culture
- Promoting a new theatre
- White theatre
- White Rhodesian plays
- 3 Theatre in Liberation Struggles
- Tanganyika
- Political struggle
- The role of culture
- Ethiopia
- The rise of political awareness
- The reformist theatre
- The new drama
- The Creative Arts Centre
- Actors and theatres
- Southern Rhodesia
- The armed struggle 1965-1980
- The theatres of separate development
- Escapism and exclusivity: the white theatre
- "Kind" Whites and "good" Blacks: official African performance
- Black drama groups and festivals
- Liberation arts
- 4 A Time of Hope: The Theatre of Independence
- Tanzania
- Nyerere, Nationalism and Ujamaa
- Early post-independence theatre
- The impetus of Arusha
- The intellectual drama
- Government sponsored theatre
- Ethiopia
- The end of an empire
- The early revolutionary theatre
- The PMAC and the theatre
- Changing relations with government
- Plays in the professional theatres, 1976-1979
- Zimbabwe
- The question of nation building
- Towards a new culture
- The ZIMFEP initiative
- University drama
- "Amakhosi Theatre Productions" and the Bulawayo Association of Drama Groups
- Published drama.
- 5 Disillusion and Debate: The Contemporary Theatres
- Tanzania
- The apotheosis of the one-party state?
- Complacency and conformity: state arts
- The University and intellectual drama
- Popular performance art and cultural troupes
- Ethiopia
- A government in crisis
- A new beginning?
- The Theatre Arts Department
- The Amateur Arts Programme
- State control and the professional theatres
- Plays of the Eighties
- Theatre under the transitional government
- Zimbabwe
- A problem of credibility
- State attitudes to the performing arts
- Funding the theatres
- The independent arts
- The contemporary plays
- Annex A: Informants
- Bibliography
- Index.