Download or read book Playful Performers written by Simon Ottenberg and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of children's masquerades in Africa, describing specific cases of young children's masking in the areas of west, central, and southern Africa. The children are seen as active agents in their own culture rather than passive recipients of culture as taught by parents and other elders.
Download or read book African Material Culture written by Mary Jo Arnoldi and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1996-04-22 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume has much to recommend it -- providing fascinating and stimulating insights into many arenas of material culture, many of which still remain only superficially explored in the archaeological literature." -- Archaeological Review "... a vivid introduction to the topic.... A glimpse into the unique and changing identities in an ever-changing world." -- Come-All-Ye Fourteen interdisciplinary essays open new perspectives for understanding African societies and cultures through the contextualized study of objects, treating everything from the production of material objects to the meaning of sticks, masquerades, household tools, clothing, and the television set in the contemporary repertoire of African material culture.
Download or read book The Performance Arts in Africa written by Frances Harding and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Performance Arts in Africa is the first anthology of key writings on African performance from many parts of the continent. As well as play texts, off the cuff comedy routines and masquerades, this exciting collection encompasses community-based drama, tourist presentations, television soap operas, puppet theatre, dance, song, and ceremonial ritualised performances. Themes discussed are: * theory * performers and performing * voice, language and words * spectators, space and time. The book also includes an introduction which examines some of the crucial debates, past and present, surrounding African performance. The Performance Arts of Africa is an essential introduction for those new to the field and is an invaluable reference source for those already familiar with African performance.
Download or read book A History of Theatre in Africa written by Martin Banham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-13 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to offer a broad history of theatre in Africa. The roots of African theatre are ancient and complex and lie in areas of community festival, seasonal rhythm and religious ritual, as well as in the work of popular entertainers and storytellers. Since the 1950s, in a movement that has paralleled the political emancipation of so much of the continent, there has also grown a theatre that comments back from the colonized world to the world of the colonists and explores its own cultural, political and linguistic identity. A History of Theatre in Africa offers a comprehensive, yet accessible, account of this long and varied chronicle, written by a team of scholars in the field. Chapters include an examination of the concepts of 'history' and 'theatre'; North Africa; Francophone theatre; Anglophone West Africa; East Africa; Southern Africa; Lusophone African theatre; Mauritius and Reunion; and the African diaspora.
Download or read book Man does not go naked written by Beate Engelbrecht and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Art Without Borders written by Ben-Ami Scharfstein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People all over the world make art and take pleasure in it, and they have done so for millennia. But acknowledging that art is a universal part of human experience leads us to some big questions: Why does it exist? Why do we enjoy it? And how do the world’s different art traditions relate to art and to each other? Art Without Borders is an extraordinary exploration of those questions, a profound and personal meditation on the human hunger for art and a dazzling synthesis of the whole range of inquiry into its significance. Esteemed thinker Ben-Ami Scharfstein’s encyclopedic erudition is here brought to bear on the full breadth of the world of art. He draws on neuroscience and psychology to understand the way we both perceive and conceive of art, including its resistance to verbal exposition. Through examples of work by Indian, Chinese, European, African, and Australianartists, Art Without Borders probes the distinction between accepting a tradition and defying it through innovation, which leads to a consideration of the notion of artistic genius. Continuing in this comparative vein, Scharfstein examines the mutual influence of European and non-European artists. Then, through a comprehensive evaluation of the world’s major art cultures, he shows how all of these individual traditions are gradually, but haltingly, conjoining into a single current of universal art. Finally, he concludes by looking at the ways empathy and intuition can allow members of one culture to appreciate the art of another. Lucid, learned, and incomparably rich in thought and detail, Art Without Borders is a monumental accomplishment, on par with the artistic achievements Scharfstein writes about so lovingly in its pages.
Download or read book Tribal Art written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quarterly journal of the art, culture and history of traditional peoples and Old World civilizations.
Download or read book Trends in Twenty First Century African Theatre and Performance written by Kene Igweonu and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2011 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trends in Twenty-First Century African Theatre and Performance is a collection of regionally focused articles on African theatre and performance. The volume provides a broad exploration of the current state of African theatre and performance and considers the directions they are taking in the 21st Century. It contains sections on current trends in theatre and performance studies, on applied/community theatre and on playwrights. The chapters have evolved out of a working group process, in which papers were submitted to peer-group scrutiny over a period of four years, at four international conferences. The book will be particularly useful as a key text for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in non-western theatre and performance (where this includes African theatre and performance), and would be a very useful resource for theatre scholars and anyone interested in African performance forms and cultures.
Download or read book Critical Fashion Practice written by Adam Geczy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a new form of design practice within the contemporary fashion industry which is active in complex forms of social commentary and critique. While fashion in the modernist era has shown signs of criticism and subversion, these were either in the form of subcultures or perversions, such as punk or BDSM styling. Today, however, these genres have been absorbed into the fashion industry itself, meaning that “critical fashion” is now far from limited to the subcultures from which it came. This book explores this new space for criticism within the popular fashion sphere to demonstrate how designers are disrupting conventions, challenging beliefs and stirring change from within the system itself. Critical Fashion Practice considers a range of contemporary designers across the globe, from the US to Japan, whose conceptual designs embody this critical language, including case studies such as Rei Kawakubo's deconstructive silhouettes for Comme des Garçons and Walter Van Beirendonck's sadomasochistic menswear collections, amongst other key players such as Miuccia Prada, Vivienne Westwood and Viktor & Rolf. Arguing that the rise of critical fashion coincides with a noticeable decline in the criticality of art, Geczy and Karaminas go beyond slotting fashion into previously established art theories. Conceiving a new cultural role for fashion that affords insight into identity, class, race, sexuality and gender, this book shows how fashion can not only reflect and comment on, but can also be a part of social change.
Download or read book Tiempo al juego written by Cristina Kahlo and published by Consejo Nacional Para la Cultura y las Artes Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes Museo Mural Diego Ri. This book was released on 2007 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great grand-daughter of Guillermo (and father of Frida), Cristina Kahlo, took up photography at age 13, and now, with undeniable talent, has continued to create surprising images. The series of this exhibition were taken in 2006 as a guest artist in Basel Switzerland during a city-wide celebration of Mexico's Day of the Dead.
Download or read book Ebony written by and published by . This book was released on 1982-12 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
Download or read book The Art of Livelihood written by Stephen R. Wooten and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the casual observer, farming on the Mande Plateau in central Mali looks rather traditional, involving hand tools and crops that date back centuries. The same might be said for the region''s famous antelope (ciwara) headdresses and dances, which have ancient origins. Yet Stephen Wooten tells a story of the essential dynamism of agriculture and masquerade, understood as linked processes of performance. Food production and masked dancing play out a common local aesthetic centered on the paired vernacular concepts of fadenya (father-childness, individuality and improvisation) and badenya (mother-childness, community and stability). As farmers balance old subsistence and new cash crops, they do not build narrowly on the most historically familiar or economically beneficial system. They instead construct a livelihood that meets a combination of needs and desires, both material and ideological. In masked performance, key rituals and forms shift in similar ways, with active negotiation over aesthetic styles, social roles and symbolic schemas. In both contexts, we find neither unfettered agency nor structural determinism, but a complex interplay of the two, mediated by a local concern for keeping the impulses of fadenya and badenya in aesthetically proper balance. Wooten''s rich and detailed ethnography reveals the artfulness, creativity and local sense-making behind both dimensions of expressive agri-culture. His study contributes to debates in cultural anthropology, folklore, art history and African studies and within the realms of practice theory, performance studies and aesthetic analysis. This is the first book in the Studies in Cultural Creativity Series, edited by the book''s author, Stephen R. Wooten, University of Oregon. "Stephen Wooten''s innovative study shows that the pursuit of livelihoods and the creation of art forms in the Mande Plateau are a unified practice, with common aesthetic principles. The study of agriculture is understood in relation to local philosophical and aesthetic ideas, while the study of masquerade is securely embedded in the social and economic life of the region. The result is a uniquely integrated and rounded portrait of a community simultaneously improvising and recreating core values in the face of changing conditions. Based on long-term engagement with southwestern Mali, this book shows how socio-economic and cultural analysis can fruitfully be brought together." -- Karin Barber, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, University of Birmingham (UK) and editor of Africa: the Journal of the International African Institute "Owing to the extraordinary richness and profound historical significance of Mande culture, several decades of scholars have explored endlessly intriguing avenues of inquiry and rummaged in many a dusty corner of the subject''s more esoteric aspects. Over the years many distinguished studies have emerged, and now Stephen Wooten''s The Art of Livelihood can be added to a list of works essential not only to research specialists, but also to any serious student of West African culture. Exhibiting superb scholarship, impeccable methodology and refreshingly clear analysis, the author illuminates the blend of art, spirituality and social dynamics that form the basis of strategies for grassroots economic survival, escorting his readers on a sensitive, colorful journey into the endlessly challenging world of Mande village farmers." -- David C. Conrad, Professor Emeritus, State University of New York at Oswego, and former President of the Mande Studies Association "Taking his cue from his Bamana interlocutors, Stephen Wooten embraces an aesthetic framework that understands both farming and masquerade as performance. As a result, this book demonstrates not just that these two seemingly separate domains are interconnected, but also that both farming and masquerade are sites for creative agency in the lives of post-colonial, rural Mande people. It offers artful, detailed, narrative descriptions of Bamana daily life and ritual activities, as well as incisive analysis that synthesizes ethnographic research findings with the abundant literature on Mande social structure and aesthetics. Essential reading for scholars and students interested in performance studies, practice theory, aesthetic anthropology, African art history, and African studies." -- Daniel B. Reed, Associate Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University and author of Dan Ge Performance "The Art of Livelihood provides a new and unique perspective on Mande farmers, contextualized in two sociological constructs that play an important role in both maintaining continuity and engendering change. Meticulous in its scholarship, and textured with insightful analyses, it is a pleasure to read." -- H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online "Wooten''s narrative is refreshingly uncomplicated, offering undergraduate and graduate-level students a highly accessible introduction to rural life on Mali''s Mande Plateau and to the seminal thinking of regional scholars. ... The Art of Livelihood combines solid ethnography with capable analyses and offers a fresh perspective on creativity and meaning-making in agricultural and ritual practices. This is a welcome addition to course reading lists in both anthropology and art history." -- African Arts
Download or read book Ivory Coast written by United States Board on Geographic Names and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1965 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ebony written by and published by . This book was released on 1982-12 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
Download or read book The Colorful Sogo B Puppets of Mali written by Mary Sue Rosen and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting more than 100 traditional, colorful puppets and masks used in Malian puppet theater, this book documents a collection that has been widely exhibited. One of the largest published surveys of Malian Bamana and Bozo puppet theater, it includes numerous pictures of puppets and masks in performance as well as detailed information on their size and construction. The text offers a historical overview of puppetry, focused on Africa, and a description of the cultural tradition that gave rise to and sustains Malian Sogo B puppet theatre, a community-based, multi-media spectacle. This is an excellent reference for anyone interested in puppetry, performance theater, masquerade, African music and dance, and African sculpture.
Download or read book The Handbook of Fashion Studies written by Sandy Black and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Fashion Studies identifies an innovative spectrum of thematic approaches, key strands and interdisciplinary concepts that continue to push forward the boundaries of fashion studies. The book is divided into seven sections: Fashion, Identity and Difference; Spaces of Fashion; Fashion and Materiality; Fashion, Agency and Policy; Science, Technology and New fashion; Fashion and Time and, Sustainable Fashion in a Globalised world. Each section consists of approximately four essays authored by established researchers in the field from the UK, USA, Netherlands, Sweden, Canada and Australia. The essays are written by international subject specialists who each engage with their section's theme in the light of their own discipline and provide clear case-studies to further knowledge on fashion. This consistency provides clarity and permits comparative analysis. The handbook will be essential reading for students of fashion as well as professionals in the industry.
Download or read book Atlas of Fashion Designers written by Laura Eceiza and published by Rockport Publishers. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current fashion is a complex phenomenon. In a constant state of constant flux, contemporary fashion combines a mix of the different cultural aspects that inform the modern individual. Atlas of Fashion Designers is born out of this proposition, and features a compilation of the most important fashion designers and their work in the past five years, selected from a multi-disciplinary perspective that display the heterogeneous mix of today’s fashion world. Featured designers all have one trait in common: they were singled out, not only for the quality of their work, but also because they illustrate different perspectives in their approach to fashion. This book includes designers with a wide array of visions, from classical haute couture to those who experiment with developing fields such as anthropology, new textiles, high technology, architecture, art, or recycling. From Ricardo Tiscci, Nicholas Ghesquière to Sybilla, to artists who are primarily concerned with pure fashion such as Lucy Orta, or to those investigators who concern themselves with innovation in the fields of textile research and technology, such as Issey Miyake or Hussein Chalayan. Atlas of Fashion Designers is a very relevant and useful reference in a hybrid society, which is composed of ever increasing heterogeneous elements. By offering a synthetic, fluid and diverse approach to the subject, the “Atlas� draws a map of the complex world of fashion at present time, and looks forward to what it may be tomorrow.
