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