Music Dance And Yoruba Culture
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Music Dance And Yoruba Culture
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Music Dance And Yoruba Culture written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Art, Yoruba categories.
Yoruba Dance
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Author : Omofolabo S. Ajayi
language : en
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
Release Date : 1998
Yoruba Dance written by Omofolabo S. Ajayi and has been published by Africa Research and Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Performing Arts categories.
This book investigates the aesthetics, significance, and the production of meaning in Yoruba dance forms through an analysis of the dancer's body attitude in communication as well as through the events in which dances take place. The author examines the Yoruba creative concept of dance as a performing art communicating non-verbally through and with other art forms and describes how dance functions as an extensive and complementary vehicle for the other arts. This approach, fully grounded in the cultural context of the Yoruba, highlights dance as a microcosm of Yoruba culture and at the same time presents it as a powerful art form and a communication vehicle. The collection of dances and dance events studied are from both ancient and historical times, reflecting and signifying the various cultures that engendered them, and each significant dance type -- whether ritual dances in sacred / secular contexts or social and political dance ceremonies -- is represented. The overall analysis emphasizes the fundamental integration of dance and dance-event in the African aesthetic, which is designed to both entertain and instruct.
Yor B Music In The Twentieth Century
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Author : Bode Omojola
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2012
Yor B Music In The Twentieth Century written by Bode Omojola and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
Drawing on extensive field research conducted over the course of two decades, Bode Omojola examines traditional and contemporary Yorùbá genres of music. From the primeval age of Ayànàgalú (the Yorùbá pioneer-drummer-turned-deity-of-drumming) to the modern era, Yorùbá musical traditions have been shaped by individual performers: drummers, dancers, singers, and chanters, wself-mediated visions of their social and cultural environment. Yorùbá Music in the Twentieth Century explores the role of the performer and the performing group in creating these traditions, contributing to the ongoing reorientation of scholarship on African music toward individual creativity within a larger social network. Drawing on extensive field research conducted over the course of two decades, Bode Omojola examines traditional Yorùbá genres such as bàtá and dùndún drumming as well as more contemporary genres such as Yorùbá popular music. The book also addresses a spectrum of social issues, ranging from gender inequality to the impactianity and Islam on Yorùbá musical practice. Throughout, Omojola emphasizes the interrelatedness of the different components of the Yorùbá musical landscape, as well as the role of specific individuals and groups of musicians, whohave continued to draw from indigenous Yorùbá musical resources to create new musical forms in the process of engaging the social dynamics of a rapidly changing environment. Awarded honorable mention in the 2014 Kwabena Nketia Book Competition of the African Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology. Bode Omojola is a Five College Associate Professor of Music at Mt. Holyoke College.
Dancing Wisdom
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Author : Yvonne Daniel
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2005
Dancing Wisdom written by Yvonne Daniel and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Performing Arts categories.
Landmark interdisciplinary study of religious systems through their dance performances
The Unity Of Music And Dance In World Cultures
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Author : David Akombo
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2016-02-03
The Unity Of Music And Dance In World Cultures written by David Akombo and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-03 with Music categories.
This study surveys music and dance from a global perspective, viewing them as a composite whole found in every culture. To some, music means sound and body movement. To others, dance means body movement and sound. The author examines the complementary connection between sound and movement as an element of the human experience as old as humanity itself. Music and dance from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the South Pacific are discussed.
Yoruba Oral Tradition
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Author : ʼWande Abimbọla
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Yoruba Oral Tradition written by ʼWande Abimbọla and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Folk literature, African categories.
The Unity Of Music And Dance In World Cultures
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Author : David Akombo
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2016-01-26
The Unity Of Music And Dance In World Cultures written by David Akombo and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-26 with Music categories.
This study surveys music and dance from a global perspective, viewing them as a composite whole found in every culture. To some, music means sound and body movement. To others, dance means body movement and sound. The author examines the complementary connection between sound and movement as an element of the human experience as old as humanity itself. Music and dance from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the South Pacific are discussed.
Yoruba Culture
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Author : Kola Abimbola
language : en
Publisher: iroko academic publishers
Release Date : 2006
Yoruba Culture written by Kola Abimbola and has been published by iroko academic publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Philosophy, Yoruba categories.
The G L D Spectacle
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Author : Babatunde Lawal
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 1996
The G L D Spectacle written by Babatunde Lawal and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Art categories.
This remarkable study explores the use of the visual and performing arts to promote nonviolence and social harmony in sub-Saharan Africa. It focuses on Gelede, a popular community festival of masquerade, dance, and song, held several times a year by the Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria and the Republic of Benin. Babatunde Lawal, an art historian and African scholar who has taught in Nigeria, Brazil, and the United States, is himself a Yoruba and has taken an active part in Gelede. He writes from the perspective of an informed participant/observer of his own culture. Lawal bases his book on extensive field research--observations and interviews--conducted over more than two decades as well as on numerous published and unpublished scholarly sources. He casts significant new light on many previously obscure aspects of Gelede, and he demonstrates a useful methodological approach to the study of non-Western art. The book systematically covers the major aspects of the Gelede spectacle, presenting its cultural background and historical origins as preface to a vivid and detailed description of an actual performance. This is followed by a discussion of the iconography and aesthetics of costume, and an examination of the sculpted images on the masks. The book concludes with a discussion of the moral and aesthetic philosophy of Gelede and its responsiveness to technological and social change. The Gelede Spectacle is illustrated in color and black-and-white with over 100 field and museum photographs, including a rare sequence on the dressing of a masquerader. It offers, in addition, more than 60 Gelede song texts, proverbs, and divination verses, each in the original Yoruba as well as in translation. Lawal's interpretations of these pieces indicate the rich complexities of metaphor and analogy inherent in the Yoruba language and art.
Trends In Twenty First Century African Theatre And Performance
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Author : Kene Igweonu
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2011
Trends In Twenty First Century African Theatre And Performance written by Kene Igweonu and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Business & Economics categories.
Trends in Twenty-First Century African Theatre and Performance is a collection of regionally focused articles on African theatre and performance. The volume provides a broad exploration of the current state of African theatre and performance and considers the directions they are taking in the 21st Century. It contains sections on current trends in theatre and performance studies, on applied/community theatre and on playwrights. The chapters have evolved out of a working group process, in which papers were submitted to peer-group scrutiny over a period of four years, at four international conferences. The book will be particularly useful as a key text for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in non-western theatre and performance (where this includes African theatre and performance), and would be a very useful resource for theatre scholars and anyone interested in African performance forms and cultures.