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Sensational knowledge : embodying culture through Japanese dance / Tomie Hahn.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center Music DVD 744 1 DVD
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LIBRA GV1695 .H24 2007 1 v. + DVD
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hahn, Tomie.
- Series:
- Music/culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dance--Study and teaching--Japan.
- Dance.
- Manners and customs.
- Dance--Study and teaching.
- Japan--Social life and customs--Study and teaching.
- Japan.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 197 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm + 1 DVD (sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.)
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- How do music and dance reveal the ways in which a community comprehends and interacts with the world? How do the senses communicate cultural knowledge? In Sensational Knowledge, ethnomusicologist and dancer Tomie Hahn uncovers the process and nuances of learning nihon buyo, a traditional Japanese dance form. She uses case studies of dancers at all levels, as well as her own firsthand experiences, to investigate the complex language of bodies, especially across cultural divides. Paying particular attention to the effect of body-to-body transmission, and how culturally constructed processes of transmission influence our sense of self, Hahn argues that the senses facilitate the construction of "boundaries of existence" that define our physical and social worlds. In this flowing and personal text, Hahn reveals the ways in which culture shapes our attendance to various sensoria, and how our interpretation of sensory information shapes our individual realities. A DVD (included) provides visual examples.
- Contents:
- Introduction : sensual orientations
- Moving scenes : history and social structure
- Unfolding essence : energetic sensibilities and aesthetics
- Revealing lessons : modes of transmission : visual, tactile, oral/aural, & media
- Transforming sensu : presence and orientation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-193) and index.
- Accompanying DVD has title: Visual examples for Sensational knowledge, Chapter 4.
- Contains:
- Visual examples for Sensational knowledge, Chapter 4
- ISBN:
- 9780819568342
- 0819568341
- 9780819568359
- 081956835X
- OCLC:
- 76794794
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