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Carnival
"Milla Cozart Riggio has compiled a body of work that takes the reader on a journey exploring the various aspects of carnival - its traditions, its history, its music, its politics - and prefaces each section with an introductory essay. Carnival represents the first theoretical redefinition of its subject and will be essential reading for the study of Trinidad Carnival in particular and for the general study of the carnivalesque in performance."--BOOK JACKET.
Carnival
This beautifully illustrated volume features work by leading writers and experts on carnival from around the world, and includes two stunning photo essays by acclaimed photographers Pablo Delano and Jeffrey Chock. Editor Milla Cozart Riggio presents a body of work that takes the reader on a fascinating journey exploring the various aspects of carnival - its traditions, its history, its music, its politics - and prefaces each section with an illuminating essay. Traditional carnival theory, based mainly on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Victor Turner, has long defined carnival as inversive or subversive. The essays in this groundbreaking anthology collectively reverse that trend, offering a re-definition of 'carnival' that focuses not on the hierarchy it temporarily displaces or negates, but a one that is rooted in the actual festival event. Carnival details its new theory in terms of a carnival that is at once representative and distinctive: The Carnival of Trinidad - the most copied yet least studied major carnival in the world.
Literature as a Lens for Climate Change
Each chapter in this collection offers a practical approach for using literature to engage and empower students to confront aspects of climate crises. Educators from different backgrounds and parts of the world share their experience using novels, short stories, drama, poetry, and nonfiction to help students understand the causes and consequences of climate change as well as how they can contribute to potential solutions.
A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance
A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance provides astate-of-the-art engagement with the rapidly developing field ofShakespeare performance studies. Redraws the boundaries of Shakespeare performance studies. Considers performance in a range of media, including in print,in the classroom, in the theatre, in film, on television and video,in multimedia and digital forms. Introduces important terms and contemporary areas of enquiry inShakespeare and performance. Raises questions about the dynamic interplay betweenShakespearean writing and the practices of contemporary performanceand performance studies. Written by an international group of major scholars, teachers,and professional theatre makers.
Festive Devils of the Americas
The devil is an inhumanly mobile, defiant and nefarious figure, the emblem of evil, harbinger of the damned. However, the festive devil the devil that dances turns the most hideous acts into playful transgressions. "Festive Devils of the Americas" is the first volume to present a transnational and performance-centred approach to this fascinating, feared and revered character of popular fiesta, street festivals and carnivals in the American continent. As produced and performed by indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples in both rural and urban communities, indigent actors and artists, neighbourhood groups and councils, festive devils challenge the principles of colonialism and nation-states rel...
Africans and the Politics of Popular Culture
Explores the instrumentalization of various aspects of popular culture in Africa.
Teaching Shakespeare Through Performance
Performance pedagogy does more than involve students in the acting, directing, and production work needed to bring a play text to life. It engages them in interpretation; it makes issues of structure or subtext immediate; it deepens understanding of stage history; in film, it demonstrates the role of camera, lighting, sound. Teaching Shakespeare through Performance is designed for teachers of both high school and college English courses who wish to introduce performance strategies into their classroom. The volume illustrates how attention to theatrical detail can give insight into Shakespeare's work and world: the significance of an omitted exit or entrance, the role of stage directions in King Lear, costumes and transvestism on the Renaissance stage, the changing fashions of acting Juliet, how experimenting with the use of different personal props in a scene from Hamlet reveals cultural attitudes, and much more.
Different Drummers
"Munro argues in an informed and imaginative way that greater attention should be paid to the recurring sonic elements of black cultures in the new world. Different Drummers provides profound insights into the importance of rhythm as a marker of resistance and a dynamic facet of everyday life across Caribbean literatures and in African American music."--J. Michael Dash, New York University "Munro takes us on a fascinating journey through the music of poetry and the poetry of music, beautifully tying together the cultures and literary texts of a range of Caribbean societies."--Laurent Dubois, author of Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France
Teaching Shakespeare Beyond the Centre
Showcasing a wide array of recent, innovative and original research into Shakespeare and learning in Australasia and beyond, this volume argues the value of the 'local' and provides transferable and adaptable models of educational theory and practice.
