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| Title: | Don't Touch, Just Listen! Popular Performance from Uganda |
| Authors: | El-Bushra, Judy Dolan, Chris |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
| Volume: | 29 |
| Issue: | 91 |
| Period: | March |
| Pages: | 37-52 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Uganda |
| Subjects: | folk drama theatre Architecture and the Arts Politics and Government |
| External links: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056240208704583 http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4332B1E5318A3BF94FD4 |
| Abstract: | The first section of this paper on popular performance in Uganda examines the importance of indigenous performance in charting people's history and reflecting popular world views, and then identifies some of the ways in which governments, political activists and NGOs have appropriated it for their programmes. The second section presents examples from northern Uganda - an AIDS drama in Coo Pe village; a 'lukeme' performance by Acholi youth; a play on women's experiences of struggling with the demands of maintaining a family -, which exemplify some of the issues around the use of popular forms of expression in the service of external agendas. The authors warn against assuming that 'indigenous performances' are automatically authentic in what they have to say. They also argue that the subversive elements of 'indigenous performance' are likely to be highly resilient to such manipulation. Just as external actors may abuse the form by imposing a foreign content, so local actors may play with an apparently innocuous form to transmit critical messages - to a limited range of peers. In the light of these discussions, the pros and cons of politicians and NGOs using indigenous performance forms as a development communication strategy are assessed. The paper is based on material collected during the period 1998-2001. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. |
