This book engages with contemporary cultural production in Africa,
focusing on theatre in Sierra Leone as main case study. The author
provides coverage of, and insights into, such themes as cultural
globalisation, commodification, the global creative economy, culture
and development, international relations and contemporary cultural
production in Sierra Leone within the context of local and global
flows of people, media, images, technologies, finance and ideas.
Combining the analysis of theatre in Sierra Leone and its aesthetics
with its policy, structural and institutional context, this book
highlights in much detail and nuance the interconnectedness between
the micro- and the macro-levels of cultural production, between the
local and the global, and between aesthetics, politics, policy,
governance structures and institutions. This book links the particular
findings from the author’s fieldwork to larger issues of
contemporary local cultural production within the context of
globalisation, commodification and decolonisation; adds a postcolonial
perspective to existing theories and approaches to cultural
production, management and policy, which is still largely missing from
the existing discourse; and also contributes to addressing the gap in
the knowledge about the context of contemporary cultural productions
in diverse African contexts. This book will be particularly useful for
both theatre scholars with an interest in the political economy of
theatre and, more broadly, those seeking to understand the nuanced
challenges and opportunities faced by policymakers, artists and arts
managers to embrace the cultural and creative industries in this
context. It also offers excellent insights for policymakers who wish
to improve their understanding and interventions beyond superficial
‘best practice’ snippets and simplified ‘success stories’.
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Contemporary Theatre in Sierra Leone
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781003820574
Publisert
2023
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Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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