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Rethinking Folk Drama
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Steve Tillis
ISBN: 0-313-30753-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30753-9
248 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 2/28/1999
List Price: $115.00 (UK Sterling Price: £79.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Awards:
  • Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 1999
Description: Traditions of folk drama exist throughout the world, ranging from simple forms that involve few people, rudimentary texts, and crude performance practices, to complex forms involving entire towns, highly elaborated texts, and performance practices that have developed over hundreds of years. Yet folk drama lacks, to this day, a full-length study from the perspectives of either folkloristics or drama studies. This work seeks to fill that lack by undertaking a bi-disciplinary study of the idea of folk drama, drawing on examples from around the world, including Yangge (China), Ta'ziyeh (Iran), Bhav=a=i (India), Karagöz (Turkey), Apidán (Nigeria), and the Mummers' Play (England). It examines the meanings of folk and drama, the significance of ritual and performance in folk drama, the frequently encountered problem of Eurocentric bias, the conventional tripartite division of drama into elite, popular, and folk categories, the need for a methodology capable of describing all aspects of folk drama performance, and the taxonomic place of folk drama in both folkloristics and drama studies. On the basis of this examination, Rethinking Folk Drama establishes a new basis for understanding the ubiquity and variety of folk drama.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
    Thinking About Folk Drama
    The Meanings of Folk and Folklore
    The Meanings of Drama and Theatre
    Issues of Folklore and Drama
    Approaches to Folk Drama
    Issues of Folk Drama
    Rethinking Folk Drama
    Works Cited
    Index
About the Author: Steve Tillis has a Doctorate in Dramatic Art from the University of California, Berkeley and is now teaching at Stanford University. He has recently written Toward an Aesthetics of the Puppet: Puppetry as a Theatrical Art (Greenwood, 1992).
LCC Class: 398
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