The Performing Arts: Music and Dance, Volume 10

John Blacking, Joann W. Kealiinohomoku

Walter de Gruyter, 1979 - Music - 344 pages

Non-Aboriginal material.

Contents

• Toward a CrossCultural Conceptualization of Dance and Some: 17
• Functional and Dysfunctional Expressions: 47
• Totemic Dances of Armenia: 67
• Its State and Tasks: 79
• An Ordinal Cross: 93
• RicePlanting Music of Chindo Korea and the Chugoku Region: 109
• The Functions of Folk Songs in Vietnam: 141
• Contemporary Music of the Maclay Coast: 159
• On the Hungarian Variants of South Slavic Folk Songs and Tales: 177
• The Role of Songs for Children in the Formation of Musical Percep: 205
• Pattern Perception and Recognition in African Music: 221
• Tactility as an Aesthetic Consideration in African Music: 251
• An Igbo Folk Requiem Music Dance Ritual: 265
• The Possibility of Objective Rhythmic Evidence for African Influ: 287
• Music and Dance of the Electronic Era: 319
• Index of Names: 335

About the author

John Blacking was born October 28, 1928, in Guilford, Surrey, England. With his family he moved to Salisbury, Wiltshire, at age three, where he received his early education and exposure to music at the Salisbury Cathedral Choir School. Blacking obtained a degree in archaeology and anthropology from Kings College Cambridge in 1953. He spent a large part of his life doing fieldwork in countries around the globe. In addition to being a well-known and well-respected professor of social anthropology and gaining professorships in England and Africa before eventually settling in the United States, Blacking was also an ethnomusicologist: He was interested in the relationship between music and biology, psychology, dance, and politics. He believed that making music is fundamental and universal to humans. Blanking stated that through music people express the human condition, transcend class boundaries, and improve the quality of life. He spent 22 months with the Venda people in South Africa. He wrote Venda Children's Songs (1967) based on this experience. Blacking's best known work is How Musical Is Man? (1973) Blacking died in 1990.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Performing Arts: Music and Dance, Volume 10; The Performing Arts: Music and Dance, Joann W. Kealiinohomoku; World anthropology, ISSN 1572-6339
• Editors: John Blacking, Joann W. Kealiinohomoku
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter, 1979
• ISBN: 9027978700, 9789027978707
• Length: 344 pages
• Subjects: Music / General; Music / History & Criticism; Performing Arts / Dance / General; Performing Arts / Dance / History & Criticism; Social Science / Sociology / General