Seize the Dance! BaAka Musical Life and the Ethnography of Performance

Name: Seize the Dance! BaAka Musical Life and the Ethnography of Performance
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ISBN: 9780195117868

ISBN-10: 0195117867

ISBN-13: 9780195117868

Edition: 1998

Authors: Michelle Kisliuk

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"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 ethnomusical 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…

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/26/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.30" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Charles Frazier was born in 1950 and grew up in western North Carolina. Frazier received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of North Carolina and his doctorate in American literature from the University of South Carolina. He taught at the University of Colorado and North Carolina State University before writing his first novel, Cold Mountain. He based the bestselling book on true stories written by his great-great-grandfather in journals during the Civil War period. Cold Mountain won the National Book Award. His other novels are Thirteen Moons and Nightwoods.Dr. Gary R. Collins is a licensed psychologist with a Ph.D in clinical psychology from Purdue University. His…



List of Musical Illustrations and Maps


Preface


Map of Region


Introduction: Yodeling for Alternatives: Some Background



Bearings on PLace, Circumstance and Performance



At Ndanga: "Life in an African Forest"



Seeking the Mother of Elamba



Seizing the Dance


An Apprenticeship in Elanga's Camp



"Taking" Mabo; Socioesthetic Detail



Dingboku, Elamba, and the Politics of Gender



The "Matter of God"



Continuations: Managing Missionaries and Modernity


Notes


Glossary


Appendix


Track Notes for CDs


References


Index