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Musicology and dance : historical and critical perspectives
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ISBN: 9781108476188 110847618X 9781108567947 9781108469951 1108755011 1108567940 1108755712 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Long treated as peripheral to music history, dance has become prominent within musicological research, as a prime and popular subject for an increasing number of books, articles, conference papers and special symposiums. Despite this growing interest, there remains no thorough-going critical examination of the ways in which musicologists might engage with dance, thinking not only about specific repertoires or genres, but about fundamental commonalities between the two, including embodiment, agency, subjectivity and consciousness. This volume begins to fill this gap. Ten chapters illustrate a range of conceptual, historical and interpretive approaches that advance the interdisciplinary study of music and dance. This methodological eclecticism is a defining feature of the volume, integrating insights from critical theory, film and cultural studies, the visual arts, phenomenology, cultural anthropology and literary criticism into the study of music and dance.


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Music-dance : Sound and motion in contemporary discourse
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ISBN: 9781138280519 1138280518 9781315271996 9781351986731 1315271990 Year: 2018 Publisher: Abingdon Routledge


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Gestures of music theatre : the performativity of song and dance
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ISBN: 0199997179 9780199997176 1306152372 9781306152372 9780199997152 0199997152 9780199997169 0199997160 0199997187 Year: 2014 Publisher: Oxford [England] : Oxford University Press,

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Gestures of Music Theater: The Performativity of Song and Dance offers new, cutting-edge essays focusing on song and dance as performative gestures that not only entertain but also act on audiences and performers. The chapters range across musical theater, opera, theater, and other artistic practices, from Glee to Gardzienice, Beckett to Disney, Broadway to Turner-Prize-winning sound installation. The chapters draw together these diverse examples of vocality and physicality by exploring their affect rather than through considering them as texts. The book's contributors derive methodologies fro

Dancing prophets : musical experience in Tumbuka healing
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ISBN: 0226265013 0226265021 Year: 1996 Volume: *3 Publisher: Chicago ; London University of Chicago Press

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For the Tumbuka people of Malawi, traditional medical practices are saturated with music. In this groundbreaking ethnography, Steven M. Friedson explores a health care system populated by dancing prophets, singing patients, and drummed spirits. Tumbuka healers diagnose diseases by enacting divination trances in which they "see" the causes of past events and their consequences for patients. Music is the structural nexus where healer, patient, and spirit meet--it is the energizing heat that fuels the trance, transforming both the bodily and social functioning of the individual. Friedson shows how the sound of the ng'oma drum, the clapping of the choir, call-and-response singing, and the jangle of tin belts and iron anklets do not simply accompany other more important ritual activities--they are the very substance of a sacred clinical reality. This novel look at the relation between music and mental and biological health will interest medical anthropologists, Africanists, and religious scholars as well as ethnomusicologists.


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Körper als Archiv in Bewegung : Choreografie als historiografische Praxis
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ISBN: 3839430003 3837630005 9783839430002 Year: 2016 Publisher: Bielefeld transcript Verlag

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Wer schreibt die Tanzgeschichte und aufgrund von welchen Annahmen und Interessen? Wie findet Erinnerung Eingang in historiografische Prozesse und welche Rolle spielt dabei der Körper? Diese Fragen prägen seit den 1990er-Jahren die europäische Tanzszene und bilden Anlass für eine grundlegende Revision der Tanzgeschichtsschreibung. Ausgehend von Arbeiten u.a. von Boris Charmatz, Olga de Soto, Foofwa d'Imobilité und Thomas Lebrun, entwirft Julia Wehren das Konzept der »choreografischen Historiografien«. Sie hält der Flüchtigkeit des Tanzes seine Geschichtlichkeit entgegen und plädiert für eine Erweiterung des Archivs um den Körper in Bewegung. »Das Buch [kann] mit Gewinn als Einführung in ein weitverzweigtes Gebiet gelesen werden, an dem die Tanzwissenschaft seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre sehr interessiert ist und mit dem sich Wehren produktiv auseinandersetzt.« Katja Schneider, Forum Modernes Theater, 2 (2018) »[Der Autorin] gelingt nicht nur ein präziser Überblick über die wichtigsten Ansätze tanzwissenschaftlicher Archivforschung. Vielmehr verankert sie den tanzenden Körper selbst ganz explizit als das zentrale Archiv schlechthin.« Janine Schulze-Fellmann, tanz, 10 (2016) »Das Buch entwickelt in anschaulicher Darstellung ein Konzept der Tanzhistoriografie, dass die Entwicklungen seit den 1990er Jahren berücksichtigt und zu einer systematischen Betrachtung dieses Phänomens auffordert, das sich durch Tourneetätigkeit und Institutionalisierung immer noch und weiterhin in einem fortwährenden Entwicklungsprozess befindet.« Peter Dahms, TanzInfo Berlin, 03.06.2016 Besprochen in: KunstKulturLifestyle, 18.05.2016 Up To Dance, 4 (2016) Auskunft, 37/1 (2017), Assia M. Harwazinski


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Intersecting Cultures in Music and Dance Education : An Oceanic Perspective
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ISBN: 331928987X 3319289896 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This volume looks forward and re-examines present day education and pedagogical practices in music and dance in the diverse cultural environments found in Oceania. The book also identifies a key issue of how teachers face the prospect of taking a reflexive view of their own cultural legacy in music and dance education as they work from and alongside different cultural worldviews. This key issue, amongst other debates that arise, positions Intersecting Cultures as an innovative text that fills a gap in the current market with highly appropriate and fresh ideas from primary sources. The book offers commentaries that underpin and inform current pedagogy and bigger picture policy for the performing arts in education in Oceania, and in parallel ways in other countries.               .

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