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Steve Tillis

Rethinking Folk Drama

Steve Tillis

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English
Praeger Publishers Inc
28 February 1999
Folk art; Theatre Studies; Cultural studies
Traditions of folk drama exist throughout the world, ranging from simple forms that involve few people, rudimentary texts, and crude performance practices, to complex forms involving entire towns, highly elaborated texts, and performance practices that have developed over hundreds of years. Yet folk drama lacks, to this day, a full-length study from the perspectives of either folkloristics or drama studies. This work seeks to fill that lack by undertaking a bi-disciplinary study of the idea of folk drama, drawing on examples from around the world, including Yangge (China), Ta'ziyeh (Iran), Bhav=a=i (India), Karagöz (Turkey), Apidán (Nigeria), and the Mummers' Play (England). It examines the meanings of folk and drama, the significance of ritual and performance in folk drama, the frequently encountered problem of Eurocentric bias, the conventional tripartite division of drama into elite, popular, and folk categories, the need for a methodology capable of describing all aspects of folk drama performance, and the taxonomic place of folk drama in both folkloristics and drama studies. On the basis of this examination, Rethinking Folk Drama establishes a new basis for understanding the ubiquity and variety of folk drama.
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Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Volume:   No. 84
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   530g
ISBN:   9780313307539
ISBN 10:   0313307539
Pages:   248
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  A / AS level ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Introduction Thinking About Folk Drama The Meanings of Folk and Folklore The Meanings of Drama and Theatre Issues of Folklore and Drama Approaches to Folk Drama Issues of Folk Drama Rethinking Folk Drama Works Cited Index

Steve Tillis has a Doctorate in Dramatic Art from the University of California, Berkeley and is now teaching at Stanford University. He has recently written Toward an Aesthetics of the Puppet: Puppetry as a Theatrical Art (Greenwood, 1992).

Reviews for Rethinking Folk Drama

"?Tills provides the first-ever systematic overview and - one hesitates to say it - definitive definition of folk drama in relationship to both folklore and theater....Highly readable; recommended for all collections in folklore or theater.?-Choice ""Tills provides the first-ever systematic overview and - one hesitates to say it - definitive definition of folk drama in relationship to both folklore and theater....Highly readable; recommended for all collections in folklore or theater.""-Choice"


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