West African Popular Theatre

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This text provides a view from below on the new forms of theatre in West Africa. Throughout, the voices of the theatre practitioners are heard, reminiscing, explaining, philosophizing and grumbling. Their personalities come across vividly, and their views play a vital role.

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Overview

This text provides a view from below on the new forms of theatre in West Africa. Throughout, the voices of the theatre practitioners are heard, reminiscing, explaining, philosophizing and grumbling. Their personalities come across vividly, and their views play a vital role.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780253210777
  • Publisher: Indiana University Press
  • Publication date: 6/28/1997
  • Series: Drama and Performance Studies
  • Pages: 312
  • Product dimensions: 6.27 (w) x 9.16 (h) x 0.87 (d)

Meet the Author

Karin Barber, Senior Lecturer at the Centre of West African Studies, the University of Birmingham, has published extensively on Yorùbá oral literature, religion, and popular culture. She worked and traveled with a Yorùbá theatre group in the early 1980s. John Collins is Head of Bokoor Recording Studio, Ghana, and Technical Director of a joint German/Ghanaian music archive redocumentation project at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon. His writings on African popular entertainment include Music Makers of West Africa and West African Pop Roots. Alain Ricard is Research Professor with the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) of the African Studies Center of the University of Bordeaux, specializing in African languages and literatures, including drama and popular literature. He has written a number of books on African literature and has produced two films on concert parties.

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Table of Contents

Introduction/Karin Barber
1. Three West African Popular Theatre Forms: A Social History/Karin Barber, John Collins,
Alain Ricard
2. The Jaguar Jokers and Orphan Do Not Glance/John Collins
3. Text of Orphan Do Not Glance
4. Concert Party in Lome and The African Girl from Paris
5. Text of The African Girl from Paris
6. The Eda Theatre and The Secret Is Out
7. Text of The Secret Is Out Bibliography Index

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