E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten
Groß Dance in West Africa
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-8309-8874-8
Verlag: Waxmann Verlag GmbH
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Analysis and description in relation to aspects of communication theory
E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8309-8874-8
Verlag: Waxmann Verlag GmbH
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
The study centres on the subject of Dance in West Africa, namely a dance
of the Ewe in Southern Ghana. Although modernity is having an adverse effect on traditional dancing, it is still important in the society and may be viewed as a mirror of culture. The objectives are to describe the dance and embed this form of expression within a theoretical framework. Every movement has a meaning and in this way it is possible to explain a whole story, a person is speaking through dance.
Ulrike Groß studied Phonetic Sciences, Linguistics and Slavonic Languages at the University of Cologne; Dance at Laban Centre London and in Westafrican Countries. She also studied Fine Arts at the University of Zuid Limburg, Academie Beeldende Kunsten, Maastricht, NL. Her research interests are in Non-verbal Communication and Phonetics in Second Language Acquisition.
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1;Book Cover;1
2;Imprint;4
3;Contents;7
4;1. General introduction;9
5;2. What is dance?;12
6;3. Dance and science;18
6.1;3.1 Ethnology;18
6.2;3.2 The psychological approach;21
6.3;3.3 Historical perspectives;22
6.4;3.4 Semiotic, linguistic and phenomenological approaches;23
6.5;3.5 African dance as a subject of musicology and ethnology;24
7;4. The Ewe;28
8;5. The Ewe language;29
9;6. Religion in Ewe Society;30
10;7. Preconsiderations in Communication Theory;37
11;8. Comparison of verbal and non-verbal forms of communication;40
11.1;8.1 The visual channel;41
11.2;8.2 Confining and containing the object of investigation;44
12;9. Description of a dance-event from a dance-inherent point of view;46
13;10. Transcription and notation;48
14;11. Evaluation of the data;56
14.1;11.1 Explanation of material;58
14.2;11.2 Evaluation of ‘motion data’;60
14.3;11.3 Basic movement;62
14.4;11.4 Bodily and spatial orientation;63
14.5;11.5 Orientation of observers;64
14.6;11.6 Establishing the space;69
14.7;11.7 Classification of bodily movements;71
14.8;11.8 Corporal segmentation, notation and description thereof;72
15;12. Describing the various positions;74
16;13. Discussion of dance data;104
17;14. From gesture to text;106
18;Glossary of terminology;119
19;Bibliography;162
