African Performance Arts and Political Acts

African Performance Arts and Political Acts presents innovative formulations for how African performance and the arts shape the narratives of cultural history and politics. This collection, edited by Naomi André, 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. 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. Essays focus on case studies from Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania.

ISBN:	9780472054824
Publisher:	University of Michigan Press
Imprint:	The University of Michigan Press
Published date:	30 Oct 2021
DEWEY:	700.103
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	280
Weight:	478g
Height:	210mm
Width:	253mm
Spine width:	22mm

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