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West African Popular Theatre

West African Popular Theatre

Ricard, Alain
Collins, John
Barber, Karin

Paperback

Series: Drama and Performance Studies

African HistoryTheater History

ISBN10: 0253210771
ISBN13: 9780253210777
Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
Published: Jun 22 1997
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.27 Depth: 9.16
Language: English

. . . a ground-breaking contribution to the field of African literature . . . --Research in African Literatures

Anyone with the slightest interest in West African cultures, performance or theatre should immediately rush out and buy this book. --Leeds African Studies Bulletin

A seminal contribution to the fields of performance studies, cultural studies, and popular culture. --Margaret Drewal

A fine book. The play texts are treasures. --Richard Bauman

African popular culture is an arena where the tensions and transformations of colonial and post-colonial society are played out, offering us a glimpse of the view from below in Africa. This book offers a comparative overview of the history, social context, and style of three major West African popular theatre genres: the concert party of Ghana, the concert party of Togo, and the traveling popular theatre of western Nigeria.

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