Guinea Unbound: Performing Pan-African Cultural Citizenship between Algiers 1969 and the Guinean National Festivals

Hashachar, Yair

doi:10.1080/1369801x.2018.1508932

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“…3 Citizenship has been used as a method of analysis for performance in Africa and the Caribbean also. Yair Hashachar (2018) has written about cultural citizenship as a drive behind the organisation of African Pan-African festivals in the late 1960s in Africa as part of post-independence celebrations. Additionally, Yvonne Daniel (2011) writes on citizenship and popular dance in the Caribbean and wider diaspora.…”

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The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy

Maoilearca¹,

Lagaay

2020

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The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy is a volume of especially commissioned critical essays, conversations, and collaborative, creative and performative writing mapping the key contexts, debates, methods, discourses and practices in this developing field.Firstly, the collection offers new insights on the fundamental question of how thinking happens: where, when, how and by whom philosophy is performed. Secondly, it provides a plurality of new accounts of performance and performativity -as the production of ideas, bodies and knowledges -in the arts and beyond. Comprising texts written by international artists, philosophers and scholars from multiple disciplines, the essays engage with questions of how performance thinks and how thought is performed in a wide range of philosophies and performances, from the ancient to the contemporary. Concepts and practices from diverse geographical regions and cultural traditions are analysed to draw conclusions about how performance operates across art, philosophy and everyday life.The collection both contributes to and critiques the philosophy of music, dance, theatre and performance, exploring the idea of a philosophy from the arts. It is crucial reading material for those interested in the hierarchy of the relationship between philosophy and the arts, advancing debates on philosophical method, and the relation between Performance and Philosophy more broadly.

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The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy

Maoilearca¹,

Lagaay

2020

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“…Under Touré's leadership, Guinea developed a country-wide system of dance troupes or "ballets" in which dancers and musicians performed folkloric versions of ethnic dances on stage. The ruling party-Le Parti Démocratique de Guinée (henceforth PDG)-advertised this staged dance (also referred to as "ballet") as an art form uniquely capable of bridging ethnic divides and emblematizing an egalitarian socialist nation aligned with a broader project of pan-African liberation (Hashachar 2018). Ballet production was organized and regulated through a four-tiered system of troupes, beginning with the village or district level, up through Sectional, Federal, and National levels.…”

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Deliberations in Dance: Affecting Publics and the Politics of Ethnicity in Guinea’s Nascent Democracy

Cohen¹

2022

Afr. Stud. Rev.

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Guinea’s postindependence state (1958-84) discouraged ethnic identification in favor of national solidarity. In the decades since, ethnic groups have increasingly been mobilized as political interest groups in Guinea, a phenomenon that has been especially visible in recent multiparty elections. At the same time as ethnicity resurfaced as an explicit political force, young performing artists in Guinea’s capital city Conakry were inventing genres of dance and urban ceremony that de-emphasize ethnicity as a marker of belonging. Cohen engages with an interdisciplinary literature on publics to describe how the aesthetic practices of non-elite African youth constitute a crucial form of political engagement.

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Celebrity and Protest in the Anti-Apartheid Movement

Bethlehem

Zalmanovich

2020

Critical Arts

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This special issue proposes to juxtapose accounts of anti-apartheid protest and solidarity efforts with the field of celebrity studies in order to deepen our understanding of both through their conjunction. As our contributors show, opponents of apartheid in South Africa and beyond were cognisant of the importance of cultivating ties with local and global media, as well as with individuals who enjoyed easy access to the media as a consequence of their "celebrity capital" (Olivier Driessens, 2013). This introduction to the special issue revisits the notion of "networked celebrity" (Fred Turner and Christine Larson, 2015) in order to set the stage for the case histories that follow. Rather than considering the actions of individual women and men of renown with respect either to their individual "consecration" as celebrities (Bourdieu, 1994), or their capacity to extract individual benefit from it, the emphasis falls on understanding various manifestations of celebrity culture that take their bearings from the collaborative and decentred nature of the global protest against apartheid. The special issue challenges the individualising emphasis of celebrity studies and its predominantly metropolitan orientation, offering 2 in the process a new set of perspectives on the transnational dimensions of the global anti-apartheid struggle.

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Guinea Unbound: Performing Pan-African Cultural Citizenship between Algiers 1969 and the Guinean National Festivals

Cited by 6 publications

References 22 publications

The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy

The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy

Deliberations in Dance: Affecting Publics and the Politics of Ethnicity in Guinea’s Nascent Democracy

Celebrity and Protest in the Anti-Apartheid Movement

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