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Performance and politics in Tanzania : the nation on stage / Laura Edmondson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edmondson, Laura, 1970-
- Series:
- African expressive cultures.
- African expressive cultures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Performing arts--Political aspects--Tanzania.
- Performing arts.
- Performing arts--Social aspects--Tanzania.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (191 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An insight into the meaning and value of popular forms of expression during a time of political and social change in East Africa.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; acknowledgments; Introduction: Acts of Complicity: Meanings, Methods,and Maps; Part 1. Imagining the Nation; ONE Performing, Transforming, and Reforming Tanzania:A Historical Tale; TWO Alternative Nations:Locating Tradition, Morality, and Power; Part 2. Sexing the Nation; THREE National Erotica:The Politics of Ngoma; FOUR Popular Drama and the Mapping of Home; Part 3. Contesting the Nation; FIVE Culture Wars:TOT versus Muungano; SIX A Victor Declared:Popular Performance in the New Millennium; glossary of swahili terms; notes; list of references; index;
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-168) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-07849-6
- 9786612078491
- 0-253-11705-4
- OCLC:
- 476155584
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