Ghana's Concert Party Theatre

Name: Ghana's Concert Party Theatre
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ISBN: 9780253214362

ISBN-10: 025321436X

ISBN-13: 9780253214362

Edition: 2001

Authors: Catherine M. Cole, Catherine M. Coles

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". . . succeeds in conveying the exciting and fascinating character of the concert party genre, as well as showing clearly how this material can be used to rethink a number of contemporary theoretical themes and issues." --Karin BarberUnder colonial rule, the first concert party practitioners brought their comic variety shows to audiences throughout what was then the British Gold Coast colony. As social and political circumstances shifted through the colonial period and early years of Ghanaian independence, concert party actors demonstrated a remarkable responsiveness to changing social roles and volatile political situations as they continued to stage this extremely popular form of…

Book details

Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 7/11/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Note on Orthography



Introduction



Reading Blackface in West Africa: Wonders Taken for Signs



"The Rowdy Lot Created the Usual Disturbance": Concerts and Emergent Publics, 1895-1927



"Ohia Ma Adwennwen," or "Use Your Gumption!": The Pragmatics of Performance, 1927-1945



Improvising Popular Traveling Theatre: The Poetics of Invention



"This is Actually a Good Interpretatation of Modern Civilization": Staging the Social Imaginary, 1946-1966


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index