Overview

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.

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Author:   Brian Diettrich ,  Brian Diettrich
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781805391449

ISBN 10:   1805391445
Pages:   340
Publication Date:   05 January 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of illustrations Foreword Nanasipauʻu Tukuʻaho Acknowledgements Introduction: Engaging the Visual in Dance and Music Brian Diettrich and Kendra Stepputat Part I: Gaining Insights through Dance Visualizations Chapter 1. Kinetic Songscapes: Intersensorial Listening to Hula Kuʻi Songs Kati Szego Chapter 2. Using Motion Capture to Access Culturally Embedded and Embodied Movement Knowledge: A Case Study in Tango Argentino Kendra Stepputat Chapter 3. Transcription and Description: Tasks for Dance Research Egil Bakka Chapter 4. Moving into Someone Else’s Research Project: Issues in Collaborative Research Judy Van Zile Part II: Reconsidering Movement Structures Chapter 5. The Dancer's Voice: The Dancing Body as Sound Made Visible Jane Freeman Moulin Chapter 6. From Tonga to Malaysia: Utlilising Adrienne Kaeppler’s Analysis of Dance Structure to Understand Igal of the Sama-Bajau in East Malaysia Mohd Anis Md Nor Chapter 7. Courting as Structured Movement in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea Don Niles Part III: Music and Dance as Agency in Power Struggles Chapter 8. Disturbing Bodies: Danced Resistance and Imperial Corporeality in Colonial Micronesia Brian Diettrich Chapter 9. Greek Politicians' Dancing: Theatrical Representations of Political Power Irene Loutzaki Chapter 10. Lalåi: Somatic Decolonisation and Worldview-Making through Chant on the Pacific Island of Guåhan Ojeya Cruz Banks Part IV: Significance of the Tangible Chapter 11. Intangible Dancing as Tangible Museum Exhibits Elsie Ivancich Dunin Chapter 12. Creativity and Ceremony in the Repatriation of King Ng:tja’ Kirsty Gillespie Chapter 13. The Weave Within: Being, Seeing and Sensing in Barasili – Solomon Islands Irene Karongo Hundleby Part V: Perspectives from Adrienne L. Kaeppler Interview with Adrienne L. Kaeppler: A Conversation with the Kupuna Ricardo D. Trimillos and Adrienne L. Kaeppler Publications by Adrienne L. Kaeppler Jess Marinaccio (compiler) Index

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Brian Diettrich is Associate Professor in Ethnomusicology at Victoria University of Wellington. A specialist in Oceania, his work has appeared in numerous publications about music and culture, including Ethnomusicology, Yearbook for Traditional Music, and the Journal of Pacific History.

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