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.
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978-3-8309-8874-8 (9783830988748)
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1 - Book Cover [Seite 1]
2 - Imprint [Seite 4]
3 - Contents [Seite 7]
4 - 1. General introduction [Seite 9]
5 - 2. What is dance? [Seite 12]
6 - 3. Dance and science [Seite 18]
6.1 - 3.1 Ethnology [Seite 18]
6.2 - 3.2 The psychological approach [Seite 21]
6.3 - 3.3 Historical perspectives [Seite 22]
6.4 - 3.4 Semiotic, linguistic and phenomenological approaches [Seite 23]
6.5 - 3.5 African dance as a subject of musicology and ethnology [Seite 24]
7 - 4. The Ewe [Seite 28]
8 - 5. The Ewe language [Seite 29]
9 - 6. Religion in Ewe Society [Seite 30]
10 - 7. Preconsiderations in Communication Theory [Seite 37]
11 - 8. Comparison of verbal and non-verbal forms of communication [Seite 40]
11.1 - 8.1 The visual channel [Seite 41]
11.2 - 8.2 Confining and containing the object of investigation [Seite 44]
12 - 9. Description of a dance-event from a dance-inherent point of view [Seite 46]
13 - 10. Transcription and notation [Seite 48]
14 - 11. Evaluation of the data [Seite 56]
14.1 - 11.1 Explanation of material [Seite 58]
14.2 - 11.2 Evaluation of 'motion data' [Seite 60]
14.3 - 11.3 Basic movement [Seite 62]
14.4 - 11.4 Bodily and spatial orientation [Seite 63]
14.5 - 11.5 Orientation of observers [Seite 64]
14.6 - 11.6 Establishing the space [Seite 69]
14.7 - 11.7 Classification of bodily movements [Seite 71]
14.8 - 11.8 Corporal segmentation, notation and description thereof [Seite 72]
15 - 12. Describing the various positions [Seite 74]
16 - 13. Discussion of dance data [Seite 104]
17 - 14. From gesture to text [Seite 106]
18 - Glossary of terminology [Seite 119]
19 - Bibliography [Seite 162]
