Author : Mervyn McLean
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 13,77 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781869402129
This work is a study of Polynesian music illustrated by music examples and photographs.
Author : Theresa Jill Buckland
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 37,18 MB
Release : 2007-03-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0299218538
This groundbreaking collection combines ethnographic and historic strategies to reveal how dance plays crucial cultural roles in various regions of the world, including Tonga, Java, Bosnia-Herzegovina, New Mexico, India, Korea, Macedonia, and England. The essays find a balance between past and present and examine how dance and bodily practices are core identity and cultural creators. Reaching beyond the typically Eurocentric view of dance, Dancing from Past to Present opens a world of debate over the role dance plays in forming and expressing cultural identities around the world.
Author : Ruth H. Finnegan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 30,93 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253328687
Exploring the oral traditions of the South Pacific, this work demonstrates that oral media and native cultural forms are vital throughout the South Pacific. It appeals to scholars concerned with the relationships between verbal art, social change, gender, power, and social organization.
Author : Kendra Stepputat
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 42,47 MB
Release : 2021-03-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1805395602
Focusing on visual approaches to performance in global cultural contexts, Perspectives in Motion explores the work of Adrienne L. Kaeppler, a pioneering researcher who has made a number of interdisciplinary contributions over five decades to dance and performance studies. Through a diverse range of case studies from Oceania, Asia, and Europe, and interdisciplinary approaches, this edited collection offers new critical and ethnographic frameworks for understanding and experiencing practices of music and dance across the globe.
Author : Paul Spencer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 35,18 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521315500
Presenting seven examples from Africa, Southeast Asia, Melanesia and Oceania, this study attempts to further the anthropological understanding of dance's social significance and critical relevance by exploring it as a reflection of social forces.
Author : Ernest Edgar Vyvyan Collocott
Publisher :
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 29,9 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Folk poetry, Polynesian
ISBN :
Author : Songiso Mvalo
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 15,73 MB
Release : 2015-12-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9990804028
Tumbuka is the dominant language in the Northern Region of Malawi. It is, however, also spoken in large pockets of Kasungu District in the Central Region and also in the Eastern Province of Zambia, and in Lundazi District in particular. Tonga, spoken in Nkhatabay and Nkhotakota, is like a cousin to Tumbuka with a close resemblance in their phonetics. Like other Bantu languages, Tumbuka is very expressive, but can also be very economic in communication or use of words, and yet clearly delivering the desired message. This can be done through the use of idioms, proverbs, or ideophones. This collection is on commonly used Tumbuka ideophones, where an ideophone shall mean "a word describing a situation, or a state of affairs, or a set of actions all in one word." It is the intention of this collection to provoke both interest in the use of ideophones as a form of expression in literature and to expound on the richness of Bantu languages.
Author : Sālote Tupou III (Queen of Tonga)
Publisher :
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 37,22 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Folk songs, Tongan
ISBN :
This volume incules a line for line translation into English of 114 compositions, including songs, lullabies, recitals, laments, drama, and Tonga's great dances the Lakalaka and Ma'ulu'ulu, with over 170 illustrations.
Author : Elizabeth May
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 36,13 MB
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 0520340574
The foremost authorities in the field of music from around the world have contributed twenty original essays for this volume, edited by Elizabeth May. Only European musics have been omitted, except insofar as they affect other musics discussed here. North American music is represented by the musics of the Native Americans and the Alaskan Eskimos. The essays are profusely illustrated with maps, drawings, diagrams, photographs, and music examples. There are extensive glossaries, bibliographies, and annotated film lists. The book is directed to readers seriously interested in acquainting themselves with musics beyond the confines of Western musicology. Contributors include Bruno Nettl, Kuo-huang Han and Lindy Li Mark, Kang-sook Lee, William P. Malm, David Morton, Bonnie C. Wade, Margaret J. Kartomi, Adrienne L. Kaeppler, Trevor A. Jones, Atta Annan Mensah, John Blacking, Alfred Kwashie Ladzekpo and Kobla Ladzekpo, Cynthia Tse Kimberlin, Jozef M. Pacholczyk, Ella Zonis, Abraham A. Schwadron, David P. McAllester, Lorraine D. Koranda, and Dale A. Olsen. Please note: this book was originally published with records. The edition available now does not include the records. We are hoping to make the original recordings available in some other way.
Author : Richard M. Moyle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 15,1 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
The first book in over twenty years on the music of a West Polynesian culture, Tongan Music records a dynamic, creative tradition that blends the carefully preserved songs and dances witnessed by Captain Cook with recent compositions. The volume reflects Tongan thinking in both structure and content, allowing the Tongan voice to speak for itself.
