Seize the dance!
Subtitle: BaAka musical life and the ethnography of performance
By: Michelle Kisliuk.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York; Oxford [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: Aka (African people) -- Folklore; Aka (African people) -- Music; Aka (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies; Dance -- Anthropological aspects -- Central African Republic; Folklore -- Central African Republic -- Performance
Description: ""Pygmy music" has captivated students and scholars of anthropology and music for decades if not centuries, but until now this aspect of their culture has never been described in a work that is at once vividly engaging, intellectually rigorous, and self-consciously aware of the ironies of representation. Seize the Dance is an ethno-musicological study focused on the music and dance of BaAka forest people, who live in the Lobaye region of the Central African Republic. Based on ethnographic research that Michelle Kisliuk conducted from 1986 through 1995, this book describes BaAka songs, drum rhythms, and dance movements - along with their contexts of social interaction - in an elegant narrative that is enhanced by many photographs, musical illustrations, and field recording on two compact discs."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-233) and index.