The Performing Arts: Music and Dance

✍ Scribed by John Blacking (editor); Joann W. Kealiinohomoko (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 368
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface
Table of contents
Introduction by John Blacking
The Study of Man as Music-Maker
Toward a Cross-Cultural Conceptualization of Dance and Some Correlate Considerations
Culture Change: Functional and Dysfunctional Expressions of Dance, a Form of Affective Culture
Totemic Dances of Armenia
Kolona Kolu: The Round upon Round in Yugoslavia
The Study of Folk Dancing in the Soviet Union: Its State and Tasks
Continuity and Discontinuity in Song Styles: An Ordinal Cross-Cultural Classification
Rice-Planting Music of Chindo (Korea) and the Chügoku Region (Japan)
The Status of Women in the Performing Arts of India and Iberia: Cross-Cultural Perspectives from Historical Accounts and Field Reports
The Functions of Folk Songs in Vietnam
The Aboriginal Music of Taiwan
Contemporary Music of the Maclay Coast
Rituals and Songs of Weather in Georgian Poetic Folklore
On the Hungarian Variants of South Slavic Folk Songs and Tales
The Rumanian Folklore Calendar and Its Age Categories
The Role of Songs for Children in the Formation of Musical Perception
Pattern Perception and Recognition in African Music
Tactility as an Aesthetic Consideration in African Music
Stress Behavior in Musicolinguistics
Igeri Ututu: An Igbo Folk Requiem Music Dance Ritual
Ngoma Music Among the Zulu
The Possibility of Objective Rhythmic Evidence for African Influence in Afro-American Music
Music and Dance as Expressions of Religious Worship in Jamaica
Space Rock: Music and Dance of the Electronic Era
Biographical Notes
Index of Names
Index of Subjects