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Dance in West Africa Analysis and description in relation to aspects of communication theory

:	Ulrike Groß
:	Dance in West Africa Analysis and description in relation to aspects of communication theory
:	Waxmann Verlag GmbH
:	9783830988748
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:	CHF 24.50
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:	Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
:	English

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The study centres on the subject of Dance in West Africa, namely a dance
of the Ewe in Southern Ghana. Although modernity is having an adverse effect on traditional dancing, it is still important in the society and may be viewed as a mirror of culture. The objectives are to describe the dance and embed this form of expression within a theoretical framework. Every movement has a meaning and in this way it is possible to explain a whole story, a person is speaking through dance.

Ulrike Groß studied Phonetic Sciences, Linguistics and Slavonic Languages at the University of Cologne; Dance at Laban Centre London and in Westafrican Countries. She also studied Fine Arts at the University of Zuid Limburg, Academie Beeldende Kunsten, Maastricht, NL. Her research interests are in Non-verbal Communication and Phonetics in Second Language Acquisition.

	Book Cover	1
	Imprint	4
	Contents	7
	1. General introduction	9
	2. What is dance?	12
	3. Dance and science	18
	3.1 Ethnology	18
	3.2 The psychological approach	21
	3.3 Historical perspectives	22
	3.4 Semiotic, linguistic and phenomenological approaches	23
	3.5 African dance as a subject of musicology and ethnology	24
	4. The Ewe	28
	5. The Ewe language	29
	6. Religion in Ewe Society	30
	7. Preconsiderations in Communication Theory	37
	8. Comparison of verbal and non-verbal forms of communication	40
	8.1 The visual channel	41
	8.2 Confining and containing the object of investigation	44
	9. Description of a dance-event from a dance-inherent point of view	46
	10. Transcription and notation	48
	11. Evaluation of the data	56
	11.1 Explanation of material	58
	11.2 Evaluation of ‘motion data’	60
	11.3 Basic movement	62
	11.4 Bodily and spatial orientation	63
	11.5 Orientation of observers	64
	11.6 Establishing the space	69
	11.7 Classification of bodily movements	71
	11.8 Corporal segmentation, notation and description thereof	72
	12. Describing the various positions	74
	13. Discussion of dance data	104
	14. From gesture to text	106
	Glossary of terminology	119
	Bibliography	162