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Playing for Life: Performance in Africa in the Age of AIDS - Louise M. Bourgault
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Playing for Life: Performance in Africa in the Age of AIDS Louise M. Bourgault ISBN 9780890891254
Playing for Life offers a broad survey of African performance, using AIDS-related performances as a central lens through which to explore performance traditions across the continent. The book pursues three primary objectives: to introduce undergraduate students to the study of Africa through performance, to showcase the richness and diversity of African performative practices, and to demonstrate how Africans are mobilizing the power of performance to confront one of the most devastating challenges of the modern era—the AIDS pandemic.
The study concentrates on AIDS and AIDS-related performances in two countries, South Africa and Mali. This dual focus provides contrasting case studies of African performance and creative responses to the AIDS crisis. Markedly different in terms of economy, religion, geography, climate, colonial and precolonial histories, and the scope and nature of the epidemic itself, these countries offer a compelling basis for comparative analysis.
The volume is enriched with maps, charts, and photographs, and each chapter is complemented by audio and video clips included on an accompanying compact disc (CD). In addition to the CD, readers may purchase a 20-minute documentary, AIDS and the Arts in Africa, produced by Louise Bourgault, which visually synthesizes the book’s key themes. Royalties from Playing for Life are donated to support projects benefiting AIDS orphans in South Africa and Mali.
Playing for Life: Performance in Africa in the Age of AIDS Louise M. Bourgault ISBN 9780890891254, 978-0890891254 & 978-08908-91254
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Louise M. Bourgault
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- ISBN
- 9780890891254
- Publisher
- Carolina Academic Press
- Publication Date
- October 2023
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