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Seize the dance! : BaAka musical life and the ethnography of performance
- Title
- Seize the dance! : BaAka musical life and the ethnography of performance / Michelle Kisliuk.
- Author
- Kisliuk, Michelle Robin.
- Publication
- New York ; Oxford [England] : Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Supplementary Content
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| book & 2 CD | Text | Request in advance | DT546.345.A35 K57 1998 book & 2 CD | Off-site | |
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- Description
- xiv, 241 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm +
- Summary
- ""Pygmy music" has captivated students and scholars of anthropology and music for decades if not centuries, but until now this aspect of their culture has never been described in a work that is at once vividly engaging, intellectually rigorous, and self-consciously aware of the ironies of representation. Seize the Dance is an ethno-musicological study focused on the music and dance of BaAka forest people, who live in the Lobaye region of the Central African Republic. Based on ethnographic research that Michelle Kisliuk conducted from 1986 through 1995, this book describes BaAka songs, drum rhythms, and dance movements - along with their contexts of social interaction - in an elegant narrative that is enhanced by many photographs, musical illustrations, and field recording on two compact discs."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Aka (African people) > Folklore
- Aka (African people) > Music
- Aka (African people) > Rites and ceremonies
- Dance > Anthropological aspects > Central African Republic
- Folklore > Performance > Central African Republic
- Folklore > Lombo > Performance
- Dance > Anthropological aspects > Lombo
- Zingen
- Dans
- Muziek
- Aka (volk)
- Lombo (Central African Republic) > Social life and customs
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-233) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Yodeling for Alternatives: An Introduction -- 2. Bearings on Place, Circumstance, and Performance -- 3. At Ndanga: "Life in an African Forest" -- 4. Seeking the Mother of Elamba -- 5. Seizing the Dance: An Apprenticeship in Elanga's Camp -- 6. "Taking" Mabo: Socioesthetic Detail -- 7. Women's Dances Dingboku and Elamba: The Politics of Gender -- 8. The "Matter of God" -- 9. Continuations: Managing Missionaries and Modernity.
- ISBN
- 0195117867
- 9780195117868
- LCCN
- 97045896
- OCLC
- ocm38030189
- 38030189
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries