Culture and performance
The essay question is :
Within complex and ever-shifting realms of power relations, do we position ourselves on the side of colonizing mentality? Or do we continue to stand in political resistance with the oppressed, ready to offer our ways of seeing and theorizing, of making culture, towards that revolutionary effort which seeks to create space where there is unlimited access to the pleasure and power of knowing, where transformation is possible? (bell hooks, Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics: Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness (New York, London: Routledge, 2015) p. 145). Discuss this quotation in relation to at least TWO examples of performance from at least TWO weeks on the Culture and Performance A module. Be sure to give equal weight to each performance you analyse.
-the Annotated Bibliography might help (which I submitted as coursework the last term.
– this link to see the ceremonial dances and rituals that welcomed the Māori Batallion back to New
Zealand after the second world war:
– this link for Kapa Haka Performance: