Performance and Politics in Tanzania: The Nation on Stage

by Laura Edmondson

Book Overview

In Performance and Politics in Tanzania, Laura Edmondson examines how politics, social values, and gender are expressed on stage. Now a disappearing tradition, Tanzanian popular theatre integrates comic sketches, acrobatics, melodrama, song, and dance to produce lively commentaries on what it means to be Tanzanian. These dynamic shows invite improvisation and spontaneous and raucous audience participation as they explore popular sentiments...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253219124
• ISBN13: 9780253219121
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher