African theatre.

Table of Contents: “…A revolt in (more than just) four parts: notes from a composer in South Africa / Neo Muyanga -- 'It was here, you must remember, our children played their games': a historiography of District Six Musical Theatre / Paula Fourie -- 'Opera is an art form for everyone': Black empowerment in the South African opera adaptations Unogumbe (2013) and Breathe - Umphefumlo (2015) / Lena van der Hoven and Liani Maasdorp -- 'We can't let politics define the arts': interviews with South African opera singers / Lena van der Hoven -- Aida 's legacy or de-/colonising music theatre in Egypt: the example of the Cairo Opera House / Nora Amin -- Toward an African operatic voice: composition, dramaturgy and identity strategies in New Yorùbá opera / Bode Omojola -- The phantom of the West African opera: a tour d' horizon / Tobias Robert Klein -- The "African opera village" turns ten: three perspectives on a controversial project in Burkina Faso / Fabian Lehmann, Wilfried Zoungrana and Andrea Reikat -- 'I smoked them out': perspectives on the emergence of folk opera or 'musical plays' in Uganda / Sam Kasule -- 'Home is where the memory persists most': introducing Zainabu Jallo's We take care of our own / Christine Matzke -- PLAYSCRIPT. …”
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