The Performing Arts : : Music and Dance / / ed. by Joann W. Kealiinohomoko, John Blacking.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: Andjelic, Madeleine V.,; Blacking, John,; Chandola, Anoop C.,; Comisel, Emilia,; Hanna, Judith Lynne,; Himeno, Midori D.,; Kauffinan, Robert,; Kealiinohomoku, Joann W.,; Kubik, Gerhard,; Kurath, Gertrude P.,; Mladenovic, Olivera,; Moore, Joseph G.,; Nha-Trang, Cong-Huyen-Ton-Nu,; Okoreaffia, C. O.,; Pantaleoni, Hewitt,; Pescatello, Ann M.,; Petrosian, E. Kh.,; Putilov, B. N.,; Seaton, S. Lee,; Sikharulidze, Ksenia,; Suliteanu, Ghizela,; Thamsanqa Sithole, Elkin,; Uchida, Ruriko,; Wade, Bonnie C.,; Watson, Karen Ann,; Zhornitskaia, M. Ia.,
• HerausgeberIn: Blacking, John,; Kealiinohomoko, Joann W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]; ©1979
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: Reprint 2010
• Language: English
• Series: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 8 Taf. 1 Kt.

Table of Contents

I-XXII -- PART ONE: MUSIC AND DANCE IN SOCIETY: GENERAL PERSPECTIVES -- The Study of Man as Music-Maker -- Toward a Cross-Cultural Conceptualization of Dance and Some Correlate Considerations -- Culture Change: Functional and Dysfunctional Expressions of Dance, a Form of Affective Culture -- PART TWO: CASE STUDIES IN DANCE -- Totemic Dances of Armenia -- Kolo na Kolu: The Round upon Round in Yugoslavia -- The Study of Folk Dancing in the Soviet Union: Its State and Tasks -- PART THREE: CROSS-CULTURAL STUDIES OF THE PERFORMING ARTS -- Continuity and Discontinuity in Song Styles: An Ordinal Cross-Cultural Classification -- Rice-Planting Music of Chindo (Korea) and the Chügoku Region (Japan) -- The Status of Women in the Performing Arts of India and Iberia: Cross-Cultural Perspectives from Historical Accounts and Field Reports -- PART FOUR: CASE STUDIES IN MUSIC AND FOLKLORE FROM ASIA AND EASTERN EUROPE -- The Functions of Folk Songs in Vietnam -- The Aboriginal Music of Taiwan -- Contemporary Music of the Maclay Coast -- Rituals and Songs of Weather in Georgian Poetic Folklore -- On the Hungarian Variants of South Slavic Folk Songs and Tales -- The Rumanian Folklore Calendar and Its Age Categories -- PART FIVE: ASPECTS OF THE MUSICAL PROCESS -- The Role of Songs for Children in the Formation of Musical Perception -- Pattern Perception and Recognition in African Music -- Tactility as an Aesthetic Consideration in African Music -- Stress Behavior in Musicolinguistics -- PART SIX: MUSIC AND DANCE IN AFRICA AND THE NEW WORLD -- Igeri Ututu: An Igbo Folk Requiem Music Dance Ritual -- Ngoma Music Among the Zulu -- The Possibility of Objective Rhythmic Evidence for African Influence in Afro-American Music -- Music and Dance as Expressions of Religious Worship in Jamaica -- Space Rock: Music and Dance of the Electronic Era -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects