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Rethinking Folk Drama
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By Steve Tillis
ISBN: 0-313-30753-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30753-9
248 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 2/28/1999
List Price: $115.00 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
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Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies
Series Number: 83
Awards:
  • Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 1999
Reviews:
  • Tills provides the first-ever systematic overview and - one hesitates to say it - definitive definition of folk drama in relationship to both folklore and theater....Highly readable; recommended for all collections in folklore or theater.
    —Choice
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
LC Card Number: 98-13980
LCC Class: PN1631
Dewey Class: 398
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