Foreword / Nanasipau'u Tuku'aho -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Engaging the visual in dance and music / Brian Diettrich and Kendra Stepputat -- Part 1. Gaining Insights through Dance Visualizations -- Kinetic songscapes: Intersensorial listening to hula ku'i songs -- Using motion capture to access culturally embedded and embodied movement knowledge: A case study in Tango Argentino -- Transcription and description: Tasks for dance research -- Moving into someone else's research project: Issues in collaborative research -- Part 2. Reconsidering Movement Structures -- The dancer's voice: The dancing body as sound made visible -- From Tonga to Malaysia: Utlilising Adrienne Kaeppler's analysis of dance structure to understand Igal of the Sama-Bajau in East Malaysia -- Courting as structured movement in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea -- Part 3. Music and Dance as Agency in Power Struggles -- Disturbing bodies: Danced resistance and imperial corporeality in Colonial Micronesia -- Greek politicians' dancing: Theatrical representations of political power -- Lalai: Somatic decolonisation and worldview making through chant on the Pacific island of Guahan -- Part 4. Significance of the Tangible -- Intangible dancing as tangible museum exhibits -- Creativity and ceremony in the repatriation of King Ngtja -- The weave within: Being, seeing and sensing in Barasili -- Solomon Islands. Irene Karongo Hundleby Part V. Perspectives from Adrienne L. Kaeppler Interview with Adrienne L. Kaeppler. A Conversation with the Kupuna
Summary:
"Perspectives in Motion explores visual approaches to performance in global cultural contexts, particularly in as it relates to the work of Adrienne L. Kaeppler, a pioneering researcher who has made a number of interdisciplinary contributions over five decades in dance and performance. Through a diverse range of case studies from Oceania, Asia, and Europe, and interdisciplinary approaches, this edited collection offers new critical and ethnographic frameworks for understanding and experiencing practices of music and dance across the globe"-- Provided by publisher.
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