- Paperback: 356 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (December 7, 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 019514404X
- ISBN-13: 978-0195144048
"Pygmy music" has captivated students and scholars of anthropology and
music for decades if not centuries, but until now this aspect of their
culture has never been described in a work that is at once vividly
engaging, intellectually rigorous, and self-consciously aware of the
ironies of representation. Seize the Dance! is an ethnomusical
study focused on the music and dance of BaAka forest people, who live in
the Lobaye region of the Central African Republic. Based on
ethnographic research that Michelle Kisliuk conducted from 1986 through
1995, this book describes BaAka songs, drum rhythms, and dance
movements--along with their contexts of social interaction--in an
elegant narrative that is enhanced by many photographs, musical
illustrations, and field recordings on two compact discs.
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