African Performance Arts and Political Acts(English, Paperback, Andre Naomi)

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African Performance Arts and Political Acts(English, Paperback, Andre Naomi) is written by Andre Naomi and published by The University of Michigan Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0472054821 (ISBN 10) and 9780472054824 (ISBN 13).

African Performance Arts and Political Actspresents innovative formulations for how African performance and the arts shape the narratives of cultural history and politics. This collection, edited by Naomi Andre, 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.