| dc.contributor.author | Lange, Siri | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2008-03-12T08:45:33Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-03-29T09:12:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2008-03-12T08:45:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-03-29T09:12:21Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1995 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0805-505X | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2435812 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study focuses on Tanzania's efforts to use elements from ethnic expressive arts in political propaganda and in the creation of a national culture after Independence. It analyses why nationalized traditional dances failed to work as national symbols, and further shows how certain central aspects of traditional ritual performance - aspects lost with the "nationalization and modernization of the dances - are now being carried on in a genuinely new cultural form: commercial popular theatre to entertain the low-income masses in Dar es Salaam.
Siri Lange (born 1966) completed her Cand. polit. degree in social anthropology in 1994. She is presently affiliated to Chr. Michelsen Institute as a Ph.D. student sponsored by the Research Council of Norway. The project is an extension of her earlier work on Tanzania, and bears the working title "Politics from below: Popular culture, political consciousness and nation in Tanzania". | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Chr. Michelsen Institute | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Research report | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | R 1995: 1 | |
| dc.subject | Dance | |
| dc.subject | Performing arts | |
| dc.subject | Traditional culture | |
| dc.subject | Theatre | |
| dc.subject | Tanzania | |
| dc.title | From Nation-Building to Popular Culture: The Modernization of Performance in Tanzania | |
| dc.type | Research report | |
