Performing arts and gender in postcolonial western Uganda:

Focusing on 'runyege', the main traditional performance genre of the Banyoro and Batooro people, this book explores the entanglement of traditional music, dance, and theater with gender and postcolonialism in Western Uganda

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Main Author: Cimardi, Linda (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Rochester University of Rochester Press 2023
Series:Eastman/Rochester studies in ethnomusicology
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Online Access:DE-12
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Summary:Focusing on 'runyege', the main traditional performance genre of the Banyoro and Batooro people, this book explores the entanglement of traditional music, dance, and theater with gender and postcolonialism in Western Uganda
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"Traditional dance preserves culture and shows people how to behave": Runyege, MDD, and gender -- Singing marriage, Runyege, and labor -- "Women aren't supposed to": instrument playing in the past and today -- Shaking the hips, stamping the feet : the Runyege dance -- Narrating and representing local culture : theater in songs and dances -- Trans-performing and morality in cultural groups -- Postlude: gendering culture -- Appendix I. Glossary of terms in Runyoro-Rutooro -- Appendix II. Historical recordings from Bunyoro and Tooro -- Author's interviews
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 277 Seiten)
ISBN:9781805430643
DOI:10.1017/9781805430643

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