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Author Edmondson, Laura, 1970- author.

Title Performance and politics in Tanzania : the nation on stage / Laura Edmondson.

Publication Info. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (x, 175 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series African expressive cultures
African expressive cultures.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-168) and index.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Contents Cover; Contents; acknowledgments; Introduction: Acts of Complicity: Meanings, Methods, and Maps; Part 1. Imagining the Nation; ONE Performing, Transforming, and Reforming Tanzania:A Historical Tale; TWO Alternative Nations:Locating Tradition, Morality, and Power; Part 2. Sexing the Nation; THREE National Erotica:The Politics of Ngoma; FOUR Popular Drama and the Mapping of Home; Part 3. Contesting the Nation; FIVE Culture Wars:TOT versus Muungano; SIX A Victor Declared:Popular Performance in the New Millennium; glossary of swahili terms; notes; list of references; index.
Summary An insight into the meaning and value of popular forms of expression during a time of political and social change in East Africa.
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Subject Performing arts -- Political aspects -- Tanzania.
Performing arts -- Political aspects.
Tanzania.
Performing arts.
Performing arts -- Social aspects -- Tanzania.
Performing arts -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Edmondson, Laura, 1970- Performance and politics in Tanzania. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2007 9780253349057 0253349052 (DLC) 2006037727 (OCoLC)76835994
ISBN 9780253117052 (electronic book)
0253117054 (electronic book)
9780253349057 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0253349052 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780253219121 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0253219124 (paperback ; alkaline paper)