Music, dance and the art of seduction
By: Frank Kouwenhoven and James Kippen (editors) ; published by the Bake Society for the study of performing arts world wide
Contributors: Bake Society
Publisher: Eburon Academic Publishers
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Delft
Language: eng
Number of pages: 461
ISBN-13: 9789059725263
Subjects: Music and dance; Music and erotica; Ethnomusicology; Courtship; Flirting; Seduction; Musik; Weltmusik; Tanz; Verführung
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The biology of musical courtship. Why not just copulate? : reflections on the aesthetic trappings of animal and human courtship displays / Björn Merker. Song complexity in a species of songbird, the Bengalese finch : a tool for seduction or a byproduct of domestication? / Kasuo Okanoya and Miki Takahasi. Musical seducers and music as seduction / Rokus de Groot. Enchanting voices / Wim van der Meer; title: Case studies. The marks of a sensual person : music and dance performance in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia / Jane Freeman Moulin. Sexual education through singing and dancing in S.E. Cameroon / Susanne Fürniss. Courtship rituals and the Native American flute / Paula Conlon. Love songs and temple festivals in northwest China : musical laughter in the face of adversity / Frank Kouwenhoven. Al Bic Bac and the marriage customs of the Dong / Han Mei. There she was : love, courtship, and marriage in performances by gay and lesbian choruses / Pamela Moro. Empowerment : the art of seduction in adult entertainment exotic dance / Judith Lynne Hanna. "Con el guleindón - a tocar es xoriguer' : subtle and unsubtle seduction and courship in Luso-Hispanic and Sephardic song / Judith R. Cohen; title: Focus India. On the dancers or Devadāsīs : Jacob Haafner's account of the eighteenth-century Indian temple dancers / Joep Bor. Between seduction and redemption - the European perception of India's temple dancers in travel accounts and stage productions from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century / Tiziana Leucci. Śr̥iṅgārānta : Eros fragmented / Saskia Kersenboom. Wounded with the arrow of her eyelashes : seduction and sensuality in North Indian dance / Margaret Walker. The language of seduction in courtesan performance / Lalita du Perron. Eros and shame in North Indian art music / Nicolas Magriel.