Balme, C.B;
Leonhardt, N;
(2024)
Developing Theatre in the Global South: Institutions, networks, experts.
[Book].
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
Drawing on new research from the ERC project ‘Developing Theatre’, this collection presents innovative institutional approaches to the theatre historiography of the Global South since 1945. Covering perspectives from Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America as well as Eastern Europe, the chapters explore how US philanthropy, international organisations and pan-African festivals all contributed to the globalisation and institutionalisation of the performing arts in the Global South. During the Cultural Cold War, the Global North intervened in and promoted forms of cultural infrastructure that were deemed adaptable to any environment. This form of technopolitics impacted the construction of national theatres, the introduction of new pedagogical tools and the invention of the workshop as a format. The networks of 'experts' responsible for this foreground seminal figures, both celebrated (Augusto Boal, Efua Sutherland) but also lesser known (Albert Botbol, Severino Montano, Metin And), who contributed to the worldwide theatrical epistemic community of the postwar years. Developing Theatre in the Global South investigates the institutional factors that led to the emergence of professional theatre in the postwar period throughout the decolonising world. The book’s institutional and transnational approach enables theatre studies to overcome its still strong national and local focus on plays and productions, and connect it to current discourses in transnational and global history.
| Type: | Book |
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| Title: | Developing Theatre in the Global South: Institutions, networks, experts |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800085749 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800085749 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800085749 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Collection © Editors, 2024 Text © Contributors, 2024 Images © Contributors and copyright holders named in captions, 2024 Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Leonhardt, N., and Balme, C. B. (eds). 2024. Developing Theatre in the Global South: Institutions, networks, experts. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800085749 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | theatre, theatre studies, performing arts, historiography, cultural studies |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10188046 |
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