Cimardi Performing Arts and Gender in Postcolonial Western Uganda

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-80543-064-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 14, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Eastman/Rochester Studies Ethnomusicology

Focusing on runyege, the main traditional performance genre of the Banyoro and Batooro people, this book explores the entanglement of traditional music, dance, and theater with gender and postcolonialism in Western Uganda.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cimardi, Linda

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Foreword by Samuel Kahunde
Acknowledgments
Note on Language
Note on the Musical Examples
Note on Online Audio and Video Material
Prelude: Encountering Local Culture in Western Uganda

Introduction: Approaching Gender and Performing Arts in Bunyoro and Tooro
1 "Traditional Dance Preserves Culture and Shows People How to Behave": Runyege, MDD, and Gender
2 Singing Marriage, Runyege, and Labor
3 "Women Aren't Supposed to": Instrument Playing in the Past and Today
4 Shaking the Hips, Stamping the Feet: The Runyege Dance
5 Narrating and Representing Local Culture: Theater in Songs and Dances
6 Trans-Performing and Morality in Cultural Groups

Postlude: Gendering Culture
Appendix I. Glossary of Terms in Runyoro-Rutooro
Appendix II. Historical Recordings from Bunyoro and Tooro
Author's Interviews
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cimardi Linda:
LINDA CIMARDI is Principal Investigator of the DFG-funded research project "Black Musics in the (Former) Yugoslav Region" based at Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg (Germany)