Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Language
- Note on the Musical Examples
- Note on Online Audio and Video Material
- Prelude: Encountering Local Culture in Western Uganda
- Introduction: Approaching Gender and Performing Arts in Bunyoro and Tooro
- One “Traditional Dance Preserves Culture and Shows People How to Behave”: Runyege, MDD, and Gender
- Two Singing Marriage, Runyege, and Labor
- Three “Women Aren't Supposed To”: Instrument Playing in the Past and Today
- Four Shaking the Hips, Stamping the Feet: The Runyege Dance
- Five Narrating and Representing Local Culture: Theater in Songs and Dances
- Six Trans-Performing and Morality in Cultural Groups
- Postlude: Gendering Culture
- I Glossary of Terms in Runyoro-Rutooro
- II Historical Recordings from Bunyoro and Tooro
- Author's Interviews
- References
- Index
References
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 December 2023
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Language
- Note on the Musical Examples
- Note on Online Audio and Video Material
- Prelude: Encountering Local Culture in Western Uganda
- Introduction: Approaching Gender and Performing Arts in Bunyoro and Tooro
- One “Traditional Dance Preserves Culture and Shows People How to Behave”: Runyege, MDD, and Gender
- Two Singing Marriage, Runyege, and Labor
- Three “Women Aren't Supposed To”: Instrument Playing in the Past and Today
- Four Shaking the Hips, Stamping the Feet: The Runyege Dance
- Five Narrating and Representing Local Culture: Theater in Songs and Dances
- Six Trans-Performing and Morality in Cultural Groups
- Postlude: Gendering Culture
- I Glossary of Terms in Runyoro-Rutooro
- II Historical Recordings from Bunyoro and Tooro
- Author's Interviews
- References
- Index
Summary
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Performing Arts and Gender in Postcolonial Western Uganda , pp. 251 - 268Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2023