Performing Arts and Gender in Postcolonial Western Uganda
Series: Eastman/Rochester Studies Ethnomusicology; 14;
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Product details:
- Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Date of Publication 19 August 2025
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781648250729
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages302 pages
- Size 228.6x152.4 mm
- Weight 666 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 12 music exx. and 36 b/w illus. 688
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Short description:
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.
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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. 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. The book 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 binary 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. Moving between analysis of historical recordings, oral accounts, and present-day fieldwork data and experiences, the book engages in a comprehensive analysis of the postcolonial entanglement of arts and gender. Audio and video recordings presented in the book can be accessed on the book's companion website, http://hdl.handle.net/1802/37373.
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"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"
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