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Turkey and North Africa
India
China
Japan
Indonesia
Africa
America
Turkey and North Africa
And, Metin. 1987. Karagöz: Turkish Shadow Theater. Third
edition. Istanbul: Dost Yaynlar. (Originally published in 1975).
Hammoudi, Abdellah. 1993. The Victim and Its Masks. An Essay
on Sacrifice and Masquerade in the Maghreb. Transl. by Paula Wissing.
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. (Originally published
as La victime et ses masques: Essai sur le sacrifice et la mascarade
au Maghreb. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1988). Chapter
1: pp. 15-32.
India
Richmond, Farley P., Darius L. Swann, and Phillip B. Zarrilli, eds.
1990. Indian Theatre: Traditions of Performance. Honolulu:
University of Hawaii Press.
"Introduction," 1-17
Part One, "The Classical Tradition and Its Predecessors": "Introduction,"
pp. 21-24
Chapter One: "Origins of Sanskrit Theatre," pp.25-32
Chapter Two: "Characteristics of Sanskrit Theatre and Drama," pp. 33-85
Part Five, "Dance-Dramas and Dramatic Dances: "Introduction", 307-314
Chapter Ten: "Kathakali," 315-357
Brandon, James, ed. 1972. Traditional Asian Plays.
New York: A Mermaid Dramabook / Hill & Wang.
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"Preface," v-vi.
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"Introduction," 1-6
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"Indian Sanskrit Drama," 7-12
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"The Toy Cart: An Indian Sanskrit Drama by King Shudraka," 13-18
China
Mackerras, Colin, ed. 1983. Chinese Theater: From Its Origins
to the Present. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press.
Mackerras, Colin and Elizabeth Wichmann. "Introduction": 1-6.
Hu, John. "Ming Dynasty Drama." Chapter III: 60-91.
Mackerras, Colin. "The Drama of the Qing Dynasty." Chapter IV: 92-117.
Mackerras.
Scott, A.C. "The Performance of Classical Theater." Chapter
V:118-144.
MAckerras, Colin. "Theater and the Masses." Chapter VI: 145-183.
Wichmann, Elizabeth. "Traditional Theater in Contemporary China."
Chapter VII: 184-201.
Wong, Isabel K.F. 1997. "The Music of China."
Chapter Four of Excursions in World Music. Second Edition.
Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. Pp. 93-101.
Brandon, James, ed. 1972. Traditional Asian Plays.
New York: A Mermaid Dramabook / Hill & Wang.
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"Chinese Opera," 273-276
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"The Price of Wine: A Peking Opera Comedy," 277-280
Japan
Wong, Isabel K.F. 1997. "The Music of Japan."
Chapter Five of Excursions in World Music. Second Edition.
Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. Pp. 104-130.
Tamba, Akira. 1981. The Musical Structure of Nô.
Translated from the French by Patricia Matoré. Tokyo: Tokai
University Press. (Originally published in 1974 as La structure musicale
du Nô, by Editions Klincksieck, Paris).
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Forward, pp. 5-7
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Introduction, pp. 9-11
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I. General Problems, pp. 15-29
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Parts II-V are optional - Scan them if ytou do not have time to read them
all
VI. Supplementary Chapters, pp. 225-232
Brandon, James, ed. 1972. Traditional Asian Plays.
New York: A Mermaid Dramabook / Hill & Wang.
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"Japanese Noh," 173-177
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"Ikkaku Sennin: A Japanese Noh Play by Komparu Zenpo Motoyasu," 179-182
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"Japanese Kabuki," 199-204
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"The Subscription List: A JApanese Kabuki Play by Namiki Gohei III," 205-209
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"The Zen Substitute: A Japanese Kabuki Farce by Okamura Shiko," 237-239
Africa
Erlmann, Veit. 1991. African Stars: Studies in Black
South African Performance. Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology;
Philip V. Bohlman and Bruno Nettl, eds. Chicago and London:
The University of Chicago Press.
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Chapter One: Introduction, pp. 1-20.
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Chapter Two: Orpheus McAdoo, pp. 21-53.
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Chapter Four: Ingoma Dance, pp. 95-111.
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Chapter Seven: Conclusion, pp. 1175-182.
America

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