Perspectives in Motion

Engaging the Visual in Dance and Music

Kendra Stepputat, Brian Diettrich (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

340 Seiten

2021
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-002-1 (ISBN)

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Through a diverse range of case studies from Oceania, Asia, and Europe, and interdisciplinary approaches, Perspectives in Motion explores visual approaches to performance in global cultural contexts, offering new critical and ethnographic frameworks for understanding and experiencing practices of music and dance across the globe.

Focusing on visual approaches to performance in global cultural contexts, Perspectives in Motion explores the work of Adrienne L. Kaeppler, a pioneering researcher who has made a number of interdisciplinary contributions over five decades to dance and performance studies. Through a diverse range of case studies from Oceania, Asia, and Europe, and interdisciplinary approaches, this edited collection offers new critical and ethnographic frameworks for understanding and experiencing practices of music and dance across the globe.

Kendra Stepputat is Associate Professor in Ethnomusicology at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz. Her recent books are The Kecak and Cultural Tourism on Bali (Eastman/Rochester Studies in Ethnomusicology, 2021) and the co-edited Choreomusicology (world of music [new series], 2020).

List of illustrations

Foreword

Nanasipauʻu Tukuʻaho

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Engaging the Visual in Dance and Music

Brian Diettrich and Kendra Stepputat

Part I: Gaining Insights through Dance Visualizations

Chapter 1. Kinetic Songscapes: Intersensorial Listening to Hula Kuʻi Songs

Kati Szego

Chapter 2. Using Motion Capture to Access Culturally Embedded and Embodied Movement Knowledge: A Case Study in Tango Argentino

Kendra Stepputat

Chapter 3. Transcription and Description: Tasks for Dance Research

Egil Bakka

Chapter 4. Moving into Someone Else’s Research Project: Issues in Collaborative Research

Judy Van Zile

Part II: Reconsidering Movement Structures

Chapter 5. The Dancer's Voice: The Dancing Body as Sound Made Visible

Jane Freeman Moulin

Chapter 6. From Tonga to Malaysia: Utlilising Adrienne Kaeppler’s Analysis of Dance Structure to Understand Igal of the Sama-Bajau in East Malaysia

Mohd Anis Md Nor

Chapter 7. Courting as Structured Movement in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea

Don Niles

Part III: Music and Dance as Agency in Power Struggles

Chapter 8. Disturbing Bodies: Danced Resistance and Imperial Corporeality in Colonial Micronesia

Brian Diettrich

Chapter 9. Greek Politicians' Dancing: Theatrical Representations of Political Power

Irene Loutzaki

Chapter 10. Lalåi: Somatic Decolonisation and Worldview-Making through Chant on the Pacific Island of Guåhan

Ojeya Cruz Banks

Part IV: Significance of the Tangible

Chapter 11. Intangible Dancing as Tangible Museum Exhibits

Elsie Ivancich Dunin

Chapter 12. Creativity and Ceremony in the Repatriation of King Ng:tja’

Kirsty Gillespie

Chapter 13. The Weave Within: Being, Seeing and Sensing in Barasili – Solomon Islands

Irene Karongo Hundleby

Part V: Perspectives from Adrienne L. Kaeppler

Interview with Adrienne L. Kaeppler: A Conversation with the Kupuna

Ricardo D. Trimillos and Adrienne L. Kaeppler

Publications by Adrienne L. Kaeppler

Jess Marinaccio (compiler)

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	09.03.2021
Reihe/Serie	Dance and Performance Studies
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-80073-002-0 / 1800730020
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-002-1 / 9781800730021
Zustand	Neuware