African popular theatre : from pre-colonial times to the present day
by
 
Kerr, David, 1942-

Title
: 
African popular theatre : from pre-colonial times to the present day

Author
: 
Kerr, David, 1942-

ISBN
: 
9780852555347
 
9780852555330
 
9780435089672
 
9780435089696

Personal Author
: 
Kerr, David, 1942-

Publication Information
: 
London : J. Currey ; Portsmouth, N.H. : Heinemann ; Nairobi : EAEP ; Cape Town : D. Philip ; Harare : Baobab, 1995.

Physical Description
: 
x, 278 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Series
: 
Studies in African literature
 
Studies in African literature.

Contents
: 
Pre-colonial African Popular Theatre -- Colonialism & Theatre -- The Reaction of Indigenous African Theatre to Colonialism -- Syncretic Popular Theatre: Militaristic Mime -- Syncretic Popular Theatre: Concert Party & Yoruba Opera -- Literary Drama & Popular Theatre -- The Travelling Theatre Movement -- Theatre for Development -- Popular Theatre & Macro-Media -- Populist Theatre & National Ideology in Modern Africa -- Popular Theatre & the Struggle for Liberation in Southern Africa -- Towards a Theatre of Popular Struggle.

Abstract
: 
African popular theater includes conventional drama plus such nonliterary performance as dance, mime, storytelling, masquerades, vaudeville, improvization, & the theater of social action & resistance. Media such as radio, film, & television are included.

Subject Term
: 
Theater -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- History.
 
Theater -- Political aspects -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
 
Theater and society -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.


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