ABSTRACT Title of Dissertation: THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF
... previous related performances, are co-present with the object itself. Apperceptions steer the development of, what O’States calls, the law. The law includes the general characteristics of the blackface puppet as conditioned by all blackface puppets and their shows. Each puppet is one frontality tha ...
... previous related performances, are co-present with the object itself. Apperceptions steer the development of, what O’States calls, the law. The law includes the general characteristics of the blackface puppet as conditioned by all blackface puppets and their shows. Each puppet is one frontality tha ...
An Interface of the Old and the New: Creating the Conscious
... international collaboration in realization of his ‘parody of difference.’ (Coco ferguson.2007.1). His technique of casting blurs both cultural and temporal boundaries; (this is particularly evident in Tegonni where Antigone and her retinue, raced through time and space to be part of Tegonni’s marria ...
... international collaboration in realization of his ‘parody of difference.’ (Coco ferguson.2007.1). His technique of casting blurs both cultural and temporal boundaries; (this is particularly evident in Tegonni where Antigone and her retinue, raced through time and space to be part of Tegonni’s marria ...
Black Theatre Movement PREPRINT
... concientization, the artists found indispensable to examine and restore their history and cultural values, which had been belittled, denied and/or suppressed by the imposition of Western cultural and artistic values. The artist, then, took a political stand that was inextricably connected to the com ...
... concientization, the artists found indispensable to examine and restore their history and cultural values, which had been belittled, denied and/or suppressed by the imposition of Western cultural and artistic values. The artist, then, took a political stand that was inextricably connected to the com ...
Full Text - International Journal of Art and Art History
... modifications. However, in the arts, literary adaptations are of many types they include: myth, ritual, music, film, radio, history, legend, fable and folkloric adaptations. These forms of adaptation raise issues of authenticity, originality, fidelity and inferiority. For instance, when oral informa ...
... modifications. However, in the arts, literary adaptations are of many types they include: myth, ritual, music, film, radio, history, legend, fable and folkloric adaptations. These forms of adaptation raise issues of authenticity, originality, fidelity and inferiority. For instance, when oral informa ...
Castles and Europe : Race Relations in Ragtime
... Ragtime music was an African American form, and the dances that were performed to it had several roots in the dance movements attributable to the African American community. The Castles were foremost among those who advocated stripping Ragtime dance of its Africanist elements, and Jim Europe was a b ...
... Ragtime music was an African American form, and the dances that were performed to it had several roots in the dance movements attributable to the African American community. The Castles were foremost among those who advocated stripping Ragtime dance of its Africanist elements, and Jim Europe was a b ...
Egging_ku_0099D_11137_DATA_1 - KU ScholarWorks
... zone. With this emphasis, the plays make an argument for full citizenship rights, using language and performance to gain access to the “imagined” community of the nation. Yet they make this argument with different inflections, based on their unique contexts. The early plays focus on the war's direct ...
... zone. With this emphasis, the plays make an argument for full citizenship rights, using language and performance to gain access to the “imagined” community of the nation. Yet they make this argument with different inflections, based on their unique contexts. The early plays focus on the war's direct ...
mlivezsity of Alberta In Pursuit of African Christian Drama A thesis
... arises from, and mirrors, African cornmunities and their historical experiences. Some of the theatrical elements and techniques that African Christian Drama borrows from traditional African drama include storytelling, audience participation, use of theatre-in-the-round, ritual theatre, use of parti ...
... arises from, and mirrors, African cornmunities and their historical experiences. Some of the theatrical elements and techniques that African Christian Drama borrows from traditional African drama include storytelling, audience participation, use of theatre-in-the-round, ritual theatre, use of parti ...
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... the dominant voice in Suicide Syndrome is that of an ideologue-artist who manoeuvres character and actions, songs and dance to amplify class sympathy (2000:192). The play starts as a group of people marches into the theatre where a play is about to end, with irascible countenances demanding a more r ...
... the dominant voice in Suicide Syndrome is that of an ideologue-artist who manoeuvres character and actions, songs and dance to amplify class sympathy (2000:192). The play starts as a group of people marches into the theatre where a play is about to end, with irascible countenances demanding a more r ...
Symbolism in the Drama of J.P. Clark and Femi Osofisan
... ends, the people’s optimism soon changed to undiluted pessimism and disillusionment.(Ogbeide;2013) As the people’s expectation became dashed on the marble of the new politicians’ greed and megalomania, not a few of them began to ask what went wrong immediately after the much-awaited independence. In ...
... ends, the people’s optimism soon changed to undiluted pessimism and disillusionment.(Ogbeide;2013) As the people’s expectation became dashed on the marble of the new politicians’ greed and megalomania, not a few of them began to ask what went wrong immediately after the much-awaited independence. In ...
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... both in African traditional performance. Ethel Pitts Walker a contemporary socialist, recapitulates this role when she states that, …the complete integration of acting, music, and dance demonstrated how African theatre involves more than once creative art form… the actors would begin singing and dan ...
... both in African traditional performance. Ethel Pitts Walker a contemporary socialist, recapitulates this role when she states that, …the complete integration of acting, music, and dance demonstrated how African theatre involves more than once creative art form… the actors would begin singing and dan ...
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... lively, as . . . our old leaders ... would now and then give us a set of 'Christy's' negro melodies arranged for a quadrille, selections of which would include the airs of: 'Old Uncle Ned; `Dandy Jim, “Rose of Alabama; `Lucy Long, “Old Dan Tucker; etc."15 Stereotypes presented by Christy had found t ...
... lively, as . . . our old leaders ... would now and then give us a set of 'Christy's' negro melodies arranged for a quadrille, selections of which would include the airs of: 'Old Uncle Ned; `Dandy Jim, “Rose of Alabama; `Lucy Long, “Old Dan Tucker; etc."15 Stereotypes presented by Christy had found t ...
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... genders and classes.” The minstrel shows toed the “line between celebration and criminality or violence” (Ashby 12). “This formal slipperiness was a way of tempering and deflecting the clanging political pressures imposed” (Lhamon 32). Minstrel shows also featured black actors in blackface pretendin ...
... genders and classes.” The minstrel shows toed the “line between celebration and criminality or violence” (Ashby 12). “This formal slipperiness was a way of tempering and deflecting the clanging political pressures imposed” (Lhamon 32). Minstrel shows also featured black actors in blackface pretendin ...
Counter Discourse in Wole Soyinka`s `Revision`
... speaker. This annoyed and distressed the actor who stared at a people to whom death, its associated symbols and costumes were „insignificant and meaningless‟ (Yvette Hutchinson 2005: 360). This attempt to redefine his memory implied that this group of people was refusing to acknowledge his personal ...
... speaker. This annoyed and distressed the actor who stared at a people to whom death, its associated symbols and costumes were „insignificant and meaningless‟ (Yvette Hutchinson 2005: 360). This attempt to redefine his memory implied that this group of people was refusing to acknowledge his personal ...
In what ways do the radical playwrights differ from the older
... gruesome death, one by one, of each character - offering no resolution or way out of the battle between tradition and modern thought, yet leaving a bitter taste in the mouth towards the indigenous cultural wisdom. This ambiguity displayed by traditional playwrights has been identified by Ngugi Wa Th ...
... gruesome death, one by one, of each character - offering no resolution or way out of the battle between tradition and modern thought, yet leaving a bitter taste in the mouth towards the indigenous cultural wisdom. This ambiguity displayed by traditional playwrights has been identified by Ngugi Wa Th ...
NGUGI WA THIONG`O`S DECOLONISING THE MIND: AN
... Decolonising the Mind is a collection of four essays by a famous African writer, poet and critic Ngugi Wa Thiong’o. It is a summary of the issues in which he has been passionately involved for the last twenty years of his practice in fiction, theatre, criticism and in teaching literature. This book ...
... Decolonising the Mind is a collection of four essays by a famous African writer, poet and critic Ngugi Wa Thiong’o. It is a summary of the issues in which he has been passionately involved for the last twenty years of his practice in fiction, theatre, criticism and in teaching literature. This book ...
The Hyers Sisters` Performances of Respectability and Resistance
... voices and original dramatic productions. As singers, they were heralded as musical prodigies, and impressed audiences with their vocal prowess and command of Western classical music traditions. As actors, they pushed boundaries of acceptable and expected roles for black and female performers by dev ...
... voices and original dramatic productions. As singers, they were heralded as musical prodigies, and impressed audiences with their vocal prowess and command of Western classical music traditions. As actors, they pushed boundaries of acceptable and expected roles for black and female performers by dev ...
Welcome to Hollywood!
... • Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios, the word "Hollywood" is often used as a symbol of American cinema. • Today, much of the movie industry has disseminated into surrounding areas such as the Westside neighborhood, but significant auxiliary industries, s ...
... • Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios, the word "Hollywood" is often used as a symbol of American cinema. • Today, much of the movie industry has disseminated into surrounding areas such as the Westside neighborhood, but significant auxiliary industries, s ...
Cambridge Companions Online
... “rude and apparently incoherent songs” was the phonic material by which slaves grappled with the incomprehensibility of their very condition: from the perspective of the captive, these nonsensical modes of expression articulated the nonsensicality of chattel slavery itself.13 This phonic material ma ...
... “rude and apparently incoherent songs” was the phonic material by which slaves grappled with the incomprehensibility of their very condition: from the perspective of the captive, these nonsensical modes of expression articulated the nonsensicality of chattel slavery itself.13 This phonic material ma ...
Musicals in the 1960`s Broadway
... like Times Square and numbers began to drop of legitimate shows produced on Broadway Most theatre productions made around the 1960s had a political message around it like Cabaret, Sound of Music, West side story, Oliver, Fiddler on the roof and etc.… which did change the way An Off-Broadway theatre ...
... like Times Square and numbers began to drop of legitimate shows produced on Broadway Most theatre productions made around the 1960s had a political message around it like Cabaret, Sound of Music, West side story, Oliver, Fiddler on the roof and etc.… which did change the way An Off-Broadway theatre ...
Black Theatre: Ritual Performance in the African
... The guiding assumption of the Black Arts Movement was that if a literary-critical investigator looked to the characteristic musical and verbal forms of the masses, he could discover unique aspects of Afro-American creative expression —aspects of both form and performance—that lay closest to the veri ...
... The guiding assumption of the Black Arts Movement was that if a literary-critical investigator looked to the characteristic musical and verbal forms of the masses, he could discover unique aspects of Afro-American creative expression —aspects of both form and performance—that lay closest to the veri ...
PRESS RELEASE - Number 43 Trelawney Park
... national importance, it cannot easily be paralleled. On the other hand, Number 43 was a haven mainly for people operating on the eastern front, like similar houses in Botswana and Zambia. It was at the centre of the ANC’s military operations. From an operational viewpoint, however, it may be a compl ...
... national importance, it cannot easily be paralleled. On the other hand, Number 43 was a haven mainly for people operating on the eastern front, like similar houses in Botswana and Zambia. It was at the centre of the ANC’s military operations. From an operational viewpoint, however, it may be a compl ...
Artefacts - IROKO Theatre Company
... West African countries, including Mali, Gambia, Senegal and Guinea-Bissau. Its origins have been traced back to the huge Mali Empire of the 12th century. It is carved from one solid piece of wood and covered with goatskin. Ropes are used to tension the skin. Although this skin can be tightened to pr ...
... West African countries, including Mali, Gambia, Senegal and Guinea-Bissau. Its origins have been traced back to the huge Mali Empire of the 12th century. It is carved from one solid piece of wood and covered with goatskin. Ropes are used to tension the skin. Although this skin can be tightened to pr ...
Civil Rights Impact on African American Musical Theatre Margaret
... of black culture and contributed to the death of African American musical comedy until after the Civil Rights movement. It promptly ended the short tradition of black creativeness that was seen with Shuffle Along, as it was written by white Gershwin. He had no experience with black culture, though h ...
... of black culture and contributed to the death of African American musical comedy until after the Civil Rights movement. It promptly ended the short tradition of black creativeness that was seen with Shuffle Along, as it was written by white Gershwin. He had no experience with black culture, though h ...
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... "Rumplestiltskin" is an adaptation of the familiar European fairy tale to the African vocal narrative tradition. Derek Phillips will play the rabbit Kalulu in "Kalulu," and Father of the Kingdom in "Rumplestiltskin." While attending Carleton College in Minnesota, he co-founded and directed Ebony II, ...
... "Rumplestiltskin" is an adaptation of the familiar European fairy tale to the African vocal narrative tradition. Derek Phillips will play the rabbit Kalulu in "Kalulu," and Father of the Kingdom in "Rumplestiltskin." While attending Carleton College in Minnesota, he co-founded and directed Ebony II, ...