Description: Performing Arts and Gender in Postcolonial Western Uganda, Hardcover by Cimardi, Linda, ISBN 1648250327, ISBN-13 9781648250323, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Drawing on archival research and extensive fieldwork in the regions of Bunyoro and Tooro, Linda Cimardi examines the connection between traditional performing arts and gender in Western Uganda. Th focuses on runyege, the main genre of the Banyoro and Batooro people, exploring its different components of singing, instrument playing, dancing, and acting and identifying their complex relationships to gender models and expressions. Today mainly performed at Ugandan school festivals and by semiprofessional ensembles, repertoires like runyege adhere to stage conventions that have developed over several decades. Some of these conventions are powerful devices allowing the actors involved (performers, teachers, students, adjudicators, and audiences) to collectively shape an image of local culture grounded in a gender notion that is perceived as traditional. At the same time, stage conventions are exploited by some performers to negotiate their gender identities and expressions in unconventional ways, thus challenging hegemonic gender models. Examining traditional arts as both the manifestation and the building blocks of local culture, th vibrantly depicts the imbrication of Ugandan performing arts with gender and postcolonialism"--
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Number of Pages: 302 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Performing Arts and Gender in Postcolonial Western Uganda
Publisher: University of Rochester Medical Press
Subject: Ethnomusicology, Gender Studies
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2023
Item Weight: 18 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Linda Cimardi
Subject Area: Music, Social Science
Item Length: 9 in
Series: Eastman/Rochester Studies Ethnomusicology Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
