Performing Arts and Gender in Postcolonial Western Uganda

Linda Cimardi

doi:10.1017/9781805430643

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Linda Cimardi, Martin Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: December 2023
Print publication year:: 2023
Online ISBN:: 9781805430643
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781805430643

Series:: Eastman/Rochester Studies in Ethnomusicology
Subjects:: Music, Music Criticism

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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.

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Performing Arts and Gender in Postcolonial Western Uganda

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Illustrations
pp vii-viii

Foreword
pp ix-x

Acknowledgments
pp xi-xii

Note on Language
pp xiii-xiv

Note on the Musical Examples
pp xv-xvi

Note on Online Audio and Video Material
pp xvii-xviii

Prelude: Encountering Local Culture in Western Uganda
pp xix-xxiv

Introduction: Approaching Gender and Performing Arts in Bunyoro and Tooro
pp 1-31

One - “Traditional Dance Preserves Culture and Shows People How to Behave”: Runyege, MDD, and Gender
pp 32-63

Two - Singing Marriage, Runyege, and Labor
pp 64-100

Three - “Women Aren't Supposed To”: Instrument Playing in the Past and Today
pp 101-131

Four - Shaking the Hips, Stamping the Feet: The Runyege Dance
pp 132-163

Five - Narrating and Representing Local Culture: Theater in Songs and Dances
pp 164-189

Six - Trans-Performing and Morality in Cultural Groups
pp 190-220

Postlude: Gendering Culture
pp 221-226

I - Glossary of Terms in Runyoro-Rutooro
pp 227-234

II - Historical Recordings from Bunyoro and Tooro
pp 235-244

Author's Interviews
pp 245-250

References
pp 251-268

Index
pp 269-277

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