Music, Dance, Anthropology

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stephen, Cottrell.

Series:

Occasional Paper of the Royal anthropological Institute

Occasional Paper of the Royal anthropological Institute ; v.46

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music and anthropology.

Dance--Anthropological aspects.

Dance.

Ethnomusicology.

ethnomusicology.

Genre:

lectures.

Case studies.

Lectures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Canon Pyon : Sean Kingston Publishing, 2021.

Summary:

The performance of music and dance is always about more than just the performance of music and dance, as this volume consistently shows. Its essays argue for importance of the work of ethnomusicologists and ethnochoreologists, illuminating core anthropological concepts such as embodied knowledge, citizenship, ritual practices, and the construction of individual and group identities via a range of methodologies, from consideration of soundscapes to ethnographic filmmaking.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction

Part I Histories, Theories, Concepts

1 - The Royal Anthropological Institute and the development of ethnomusicology in the UK

2 -'The legs that put a kick into anthropology': Forerunners of the anthropology of dance

3 - How musical is the citizen?

4 - Why music matters: Social aesthetics and cultural transmission

5 - The 'voice of the body': Revisiting the concept of embodied ethnography in the anthropology of dance

6 - Ethnomusicology and filmmaking

Part II - Regional Insights

7 - The soundscapes turn in ethnomusicology: Sonic territoriality and the Islamic revival across Chinese-Central Asian borders

8 - Performative bodies: Overtoning self and personhood among nomadic musicians and shamans of the Altai- Sayan mountains of southern Siberia

9 - 'To win or lose a place in the sun': Sounding movements, changing contexts and the sean nós dancer

10 - Local dance traditions and glocalized crisis: A landscape of traditional dance in Greece under austerity

11 - Music, power and patronage: The case of the king's musicians of Buganda

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Stephen, Cottrell Music, Dance, Anthropology.

ISBN:

9781912385379

OCLC:

1293025114