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Tobias Klein,Paula Fourie,Hilde Roos,Andrea Reikat,Bode Omojola,Christine Matzke,Christopher Joseph Odhiambo,Fabian Lehmann,Lena van der Hoven,Liani Maasdorp,Neo Muyanga,Nora Amin,Sam Kasule,Wilfried Zoungrana,Zainabu Jallo

African Theatre 19

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Music is often cited as a central artistic mode in African theatre and performance practices. However, little attention has been paid to music theatre on the continent in general, and to opera in particular, with the exceptions ofa few noted genres, such as Concert Party or the Yorùbá “folk opera” of the 1960s, and the emerging research on opera culture in South Africa.
This volume of African Theatre highlights the diversity across the continent from a variety of perspectives — including those of genre, media, and historiography. Above all, it raises questions and encourages debate: What does “opera” mean in African and African diasporic contexts? What are its practices and legacies — colonial, postcolonial and decolonial; what is its relation to the intersectionalities of race and class? How do opera and music theatre reflect, change or obscure social, political and economic realities? How are they connected to educational and cultural institutions, and non-profit organisations? And why is opera contradictorily, at various times, perceived as both “grand” and “elitist, “folk” and “quotidian”, “Eurocentric” and “indigenous”?
Contributors also address aesthetic transformation processes, the porousness of genre boundaries and the role of space and place, with examples ranging from Egypt to South Africa, from Uganda to West Africa and the USA.
The playscript in this volume is We Take Care of Our Own by Zainabu Jallo
GUEST EDITORS: Christine Matzke, Lena van der Hoven, Christopher Odhiambo & Hilde Roos
Series Editors: Yvette Hutchison, Reader, Department of Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Warwick; Chukwuma Okoye, Reader in African Theatre & Performance University of Ibadan; Jane Plastow, Professor of African Theatre, University of Leeds.
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393 printed pages
Original publication
2020
Publication year
2020
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