Dance in the Field: Theory, Methods and Issues in Dance Ethnography

✍ Scribed by Theresa J. Buckland (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 243
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This international collection on dance ethnography - the first of its kind - comprises original contributions on fieldwork in dance and human movement. Based on extensive fieldwork experience, it explores the major theoretical approaches, methods and concerns of dance and movement research from anthropological and ethnochoreological perspectives. The result underlines the existing and continuing growth in dance ethnography which will also be of interest to those in dance studies, anthropology, cultural studies, folklore, ethnomusicology and sociology.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction: Reflecting on Dance Ethnography....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
The Mystique of Fieldwork....Pages 13-25
Fieldwork....Pages 26-40
Past and Present in Field Research: a Critical History of Personal Experience....Pages 41-54
Folk Dance Research in Hungary: Relations among Theory, Fieldwork and the Archive....Pages 55-70
‘Or Shortly They would be Lost Forever’: Documenting for Revival and Research....Pages 71-81
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Capturing the Dancing: Why and How?....Pages 85-99
The Choreographic Notebook: a Dynamic Documentation of the Choreographic Process of Kokuma Dance Theatre, an African-Caribbean Dance Company....Pages 100-110
Dance on Film: Strategy and Serendipity....Pages 111-122
Madness and Recall: Storied Data on Irish Dancing....Pages 123-133
It Takes Two — or More — to Tango: Researching Traditional Music/Dance Interrelations....Pages 134-144
It Goes Without Saying — But Not Always....Pages 145-160
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
Fieldwork, Politics and Power....Pages 163-174
Searching for Branches, Searching for Roots: Fieldwork in my Grandfather’s Village....Pages 175-185
‘Outsider’ in an ‘Inside’ World, or Dance Ethnography at Home....Pages 186-195
[Re] Constructing Meanings: the Dance Ethnographer as Keeper of the Truth....Pages 196-207
Textual Fields: Representation in Dance Ethnography....Pages 208-220
Back Matter....Pages 221-223

✦ Subjects

Sociology of Culture;Dance;Anthropology;Ethnography