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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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List of illustrations
Foreword Nanasipaüu Tuküaho 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 Küi 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.
Brian Diettrich is Senior Lecturer 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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Through a diverse range of case studies from Oceania, Asia, and Europe, and interdisciplinary approaches, Perspectives in Motion explores visual approaches to performance in global cultural contexts, offering new critical and ethnographic frameworks for understanding and experiencing practices of music and dance across the globe.
