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Staging Ghana

Artistry and Nationalism in State Dance Ensembles

By (author) Paul Schauert
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, United States
Published: 7th Sep 2015
Dimensions: w 152mm h 229mm d 21mm
Weight: 672g
ISBN-10: 0253017327
ISBN-13: 9780253017321
Barcode No: 9780253017321
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The Ghana Dance Ensemble takes Ghana's national culture and interprets it in performance using authentic dance forms adapted for local or foreign audiences. Often, says Paul Schauert, the aims of the ensemble and the aims of the individual performers work in opposition. Schauert discusses the history of the dance troupe and its role in Ghana's post-independence nation-building strategy and illustrates how the nation's culture makes its way onto the stage. He argues that as dancers negotiate the terrain of what is or is not authentic, they also find ways to express their personal aspirations, discovering, within the framework of nationalism or collective identity, that there is considerable room to reform national ideals through individual virtuosity.

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Staging Ghana is a valuable addition to the slowly growing body of work about dance and dance companies in contemporary Africa. * Ghana Studies * With theory well grounded in (and balanced by) richly textured ethnography and analyses, Staging Ghana is a valuable addition to the literature in the ever-growing fields of African studies and performance studies. Its examination of nationalism, creativity, postcolonialism, culture, music, and dance give it great multidisciplinary relevance. * Anthropos * Schauert's ethnographic overview of state dance ensembles in Ghana is based on fieldwork and collaborative artistic productions. A musician himself, Schauert . . . presents first-person narratives of creative experiments alongside excellent historical overviews of music and dance in intertwined performances of the Ghana Dance Ensemble (based at the Univ. of Ghana, Legon) and the National Dance Company of Ghana. Recommended. * Choice *