The Generation of Plays - Yoruba Popular Life in Theater

In "The Generation of Plays, Karin Barber recounts the history of the Odin Adejbi Theater Company and uncovers the pulse points of generation, production, and improvisation that merge when a Yoreba popular drama is brought to the stage. This rich and detailed book opens a window into the social and cultural worlds of actors and audiences.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preliminary Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
A Note on Orthography
1. Introduction
2. The History of a Founder, a Genre, and a Public
3. The Actors
4. Getting a Show on the Road
5. The Generation of Plays
6. The Filling Out a Play
7. Audiences
8. Television, Film, and Video
9. The World of the Work: Place, Gender, and Politics
10. Literacy, "Enlightenment," and "Tradition"
11. Work, Destiny, and Self-making
12. Language and the Moral Public
13. Conclusion: The Lessons of Example
Appendix 1: Synopses
Appendix 2: Yorùbá Text of a Sene from Taking Care of Kúnlé
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Karin Barber is Professor of African Cultural Anthropology at the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham.

Zusammenfassung

From the 1940s to the 1980s, Yoruba popular theatre was one of the most spectacularly successful theatres in Africa. This title recounts the history of the Odin Adejo Theatre Company. It uncovers the pulse points of generation, production, and improvisation that merge when a Yoruba popular dram is brought to the stage.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Karen Barber, Karin Barber, Barber Karin
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.03.2003
• EAN: 9780253216175
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21617-5
• Seiten: 502
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 229 mm x 26 mm
• Gewicht: 720 g
• Serie: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Theater, Ballett; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Geowissenschaften > Geografie; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein