Seize the dance! : BaAka musical life and the ethnography of performance / Michelle Kisliuk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kisliuk, Michelle Robin, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aka (African people)--Folklore.

Aka (African people).

Aka (African people)--Music.

Aka (African people)--Rites and ceremonies.

Dance--Anthropological aspects--Central African Republic.

Dance.

Folklore--Central African Republic--Performance.

Folklore.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages) : illustrations, map

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Based on ethnographic research that author Kisliuk conducted from 1986 through 1995, this book describes BaAka songs, drum rhythms, and dance movements--and their immediate, interactive contexts--in an elegantly written narrative illustrated with many photographs, musical illustrations, and field recordings on two CDs. Key theoretical issues addressed include socioaesthetics and the politics of identity, gender relations, colonialism, and missionization.

Contents:

Preliminaries; Preface; 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; Appendix; Notes; Glossary; Track Notes for Compact Disks; References; Selected Discography; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772904-5

1-280-76161-X

0-19-535350-1

OCLC:

609831714