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| Author | : 'H' Patten |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 2022-03-30 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 100054642X |
This book explores the genealogy of Jamaican dancehall while questioning whether dancehall has a spiritual underscoring, foregrounding dance, and cultural expression. This study identifies the performance and performative (behavioural actions) that may be considered as representing spiritual ritual practices within the reggae/dancehall dance phenomenon. It does so by juxtaposing reggae/dancehall against Jamaican African/neo-African spiritual practices such as Jonkonnu masquerade, Revivalism and Kumina, alongside Christianity and post-modern holistic spiritual approaches. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in performance studies, popular culture, music, theology, cultural studies, Jamaican/Caribbean culture, and dance specialists.
| Author | : Joy White |
| Publisher | : Watkins Media Limited |
| Total Pages | : 134 |
| Release | : 2024-10-01 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1914420101 |
Analyses how Black music and culture framed how we passed the time in the first 18 months of the pandemic. During the COVID-19 pandemic, music listening increased as people used it to help to counter the psychological fallout of lockdown and reduce its effects of isolation, restriction and boredom. At the same time, concerts and other musical events moved online, and even when lockdown eased, social distancing meant that group musical and cultural events took on a different format. With a focus on contemporary Black music, this book takes a deep dive into a few of the various forms that popular culture took over this period, including Kano's Newham Talks series; Steve McQueen's BBC anthology Small Axe; the Verzuz DJ Battle series; TikTok's Don't Rush Challenge; radio station theresnosignal; and many more. An attempt to make sense of chronological and kairotic time in the early era of the pandemic, this book explores the way that Black joy and sonic Black geographies were key to the culture of this period, and how Black music and Black creative expression soundtracked and sustained us during the pandemic.
| Author | : Patricia Noxolo |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 171 |
| Release | : 2022-03-23 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1000550338 |
This book focuses on how in/security works in and through Jamaican dancehall, and on the insights that Jamaican dancehall offers for the global study of in/security. This collection draws together a multi-disciplinary range of key scholars in in/security and dancehall. Scholars from the University of the West Indies' Institute of Caribbean Studies and Reggae Studies Unit, as well as independent dancehall and dance practitioners from Kingston, and writers from the UK, US and continental Europe offer their differently situated perspectives on dancehall, its histories, spatial patterning, professional status and aesthetics. The study brings together critical security studies with dancehall studies and will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners in theatre, dance and performance studies, sociology, cultural geography, anthropology, postcolonial studies, diaspora studies, musicology and gender studies.
| Author | : Kene Igweonu |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 811 |
| Release | : 2024-06-10 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1040019919 |
The Routledge Handbook of African Theatre and Performance brings together the very latest international research on the performing arts across the continent and the diaspora into one expansive and wide-ranging collection. The book offers readers a compelling journey through the different ideas, people and practices that have shaped African theatre and performance, from pre-colonial and colonial times, right through to the 20th and early 21st centuries. Resolutely Pan-African and inter- national in its coverage, the book draws on the expertise of a wide range of Africanist scholars, and also showcases the voices of performers and theatre practitioners working on the cutting-edge of African theatre and performance practice. Contributors aim to answer some of the big questions about the content (nature, form) and context (processes, practice) of theatre, whilst also painting a pluralistic and complex picture of the diversity of cultural, political and artistic exigencies across the continent. Covering a broad range of themes including postcolonialism, transnationalism, interculturalism, Afropolitanism, development and the diaspora, the handbook concludes by projecting possible future directions for African theatre and performance as we continue to advance into the 21st century and beyond. This ground-breaking new handbook will be essential reading for students and researchers studying theatre and performance practices across Africa and the diaspora. Kene Igweonu is Professor of Creative Education at University of the Arts London, where he is also Pro Vice-Chancellor and Head of London College of Communication. An interdisciplinary researcher, Professor Igweonu has extensive experience of senior academic leadership in immersive and interactive practices and performance practice. His practice research and publication interests are in storytelling, theatre, and performance in Africa and its Diaspora, as well as the Feldenkrais Method in health, wellbeing, and performance training. A champion for arts and creative industries, Professor Igweonu is Chair of DramaHE, Council Member for Creative UK, and until August 2023, President of the African Theatre Association.
| Author | : Jeremy Killian |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 2022-03-02 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1000546136 |
Through a close re-examination of Eugene O’Neill’s oeuvre, from minor plays to his Pulitzer-winning works, this study proposes that O’Neill’s vision of tragedy privileges a particular emotional response over a more “rational” one among his audience members. In addition to offering a new paradigm through which to interpret O’Neill’s work, this book argues that O’Neill’s theory of tragedy is a robust account of the value of difficult theatre as a whole, with more explanatory scope and power than its cognitivist counterparts. This paradigm reshapes our understanding of live theatrical tragedy’s impact and significance for our lives. The book enters the discussion of tragic value by way of the plays of Eugene O’Neill, and through this study, Killian makes the case that O’Neill has refused to allow Plato to define the terms of tragedy’s merit, as the cognitivists have. He argues that O’Neill’s theory of tragedy is non-cognitive and locates the value of a play in its ability to trigger certain emotional responses from the audience. This would be of great interest to students and scholars of performance studies, literature and philosophy.
| Author | : Thomas G Leabhart |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 186 |
| Release | : 2022-05-11 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1000544494 |
In this series of essays, Thomas Leabhart presents a thorough overview and analysis of Etienne Decroux’s artistic genealogy. After four years’ apprenticeship with Decroux, Thomas Leabhart began to research and discover how forebears and contemporaries might have influenced Decroux’s project. Decades of digging revealed striking correspondences that often led to adjacent fields—art history, philosophy, and anthropology—forays wherein Leabhart’s appreciation of Decroux and his "kinsfolk," who themselves transgressed traditional frontiers, increased. The following essays, composed over a 30-year period, find a common source in a darkened Prague cinema where people gasped at a wooden doll’s sudden reversal of fortune. These essays: investigate the source of that astonishment; continue Leabhart's examination of Decroux’s "family tree"; consider how Copeau's and Decroux's keen observation of animal movement influenced their actor training; record the challenging and paradoxical improvisations chez Decroux; and recall Decroux’s debt to sculpture, poster art, sport and masks. These essays will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners in theatre and performance studies.
| Author | : Adesola Akinleye |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 318 |
| Release | : 2018-02-08 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3319703145 |
This book explores Black British dance from a number of previously-untold perspectives. Bringing together the voices of dance-artists, scholars, teachers and choreographers, it looks at a range of performing arts from dancehall to ballet, providing valuable insights into dance theory, performance, pedagogy, identity and culture. It challenges the presumption that Blackness, Britishness or dance are monolithic entities, instead arguing that all three are living networks created by rich histories, diverse faces and infinite future possibilities. Through a variety of critical and creative essays, this book suggests a widening of our conceptions of what British dance looks like, where it appears, and who is involved in its creation.
| Author | : Patrick Taylor |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 238 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9780253338358 |
Dealing with the ongoing interaction of rich and diverse cultural traditions from Cuba and Jamaica to Guyana and Surinam, Nation Dance addresses some of the major contemporary issues in the study of Caribbean religion and identity. The book’s three sections move from a focus on spirituality and healing, to theology in social and political context, and on to questions of identity and diaspora. The book begins with the voices of female practitioners and then offers a broad, interdisciplinary examination of Caribbean religion and culture. Afro-Caribbean religions, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity are all addressed, with specific reflections on Santería, Palo Monte, Vodou, Winti, Obeah, Kali Mai, Orisha work, Spiritual Baptist faith, Spiritualism, Rastafari, Confucianism, Congregationalism, Pentecostalism, Catholicism, and liberation theology. Some essays are based on fieldwork, archival research, and textual or linguistic analysis, while others are concerned with methodological or theoretical issues. Contributors include practitioners and scholars, some very established in the field, others with fresh, new approaches; all of them come from the region or have done extensive fieldwork or research there. In these essays the poetic vitality of the practitioner’s voice meets the attentive commitment of the postcolonial scholar in a dance of "nations" across the waters.
| Author | : Kenneth Anthony Lum |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2000-01-18 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1136766294 |
The author provides a detailed portrait of the Spiritual Baptist Faith and Orisha Work, two religions that share a common basis in the traditional religion of the Yoruba in West Africa. Specifically, the author studies the phenomenon of spirit possession, an integral aspect of worship in both religions. In the Spiritual Baptist Faith, a person who
| Author | : Bianca Rose |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2021-07-23 |
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| ISBN | : |
Take a journey into learning about one of the world's most influential people and its byproducts. Bianca Rose observes Rastafarianism, music, sports, and other cultural aspects of the Caribbean island of Jamaica and the influence they have on people around the world. The militant language of Jamaican Patois, the sound of Reggae music, the impact of dance, lessons from legendary freedom fights, amongst other forms of powerful vibrations birthed in Jamaica, all have had an effect on the entire human evolution. Bianca traces her roots as far back as Ghana, Nigeria, and additional places in Africa where particular groups of people that were brought to Jamaica were stolen from - for most, and willingly migrated from - for many. Fearless studies variations of the Jamaican culture, from the people (i.e. Maroons, Rastafarians, God-fearing Jamaican people), to their characteristics, habits and predominant ways of living that contribute to the palpable pride felt throughout the world. She uses research and other evidence-based methods to discover and uncover patterns Jamaicans have had since time, in order to produce a solution that can be applied currently to environments that struggle with very low vibrations, such as racism. "Growing up as a Jamaican-American provided a unique living experience for me, as I often felt as if I was experiencing different dimensions when in either environment; Jamaica always having a unique sense of air with higher vibrations you can feel as soon as you touch Jamaican soil." "Fearless: A Dissection of Jamaican Spirituality" highlights the strengths Jamaicans bring to the world peace table. It encourages readers to also embark on their own journey through their roots, and, likewise, share all of the powerful knowledge acquired along the way with others. We can potentially bring the world back to a more conscious state of knowing who we truly are, and appreciate the powers in one another.
