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Shiva Onstage
When Uday Shanker and his company launched their inaugural world tour in Paris in 1931, European and American audiences received the ensemble enthusiastically. How could this group of foreigners have been so successful on Western stages? This book explores why.
Bodies Without Borders
Globalization is often thought of as an abstract process that happens "out there" in the world. But people are ultimately the driving force of global change, and people have bodies that are absent from current conversations about globalization. The original scholarly research and first-person accounts of embodiment in this volume explore the role of bodies in the flows of people, money, commodities, and ideas across borders. From Zumba fitness classes to martial arts to fashion blogs and the meanings of tattooing, the contributors examine migrating body practices and ideals that stretch across national boundaries.
Anthropological Abstracts 10/2011
Anthropological Abstracts (AA) is a reference journal published once a year in print, but also under www.anthropology-online.de and announces - in English language - most publications in the field of cultural/social anthropology published in the German language area (Austria, Germany, Switzerland). Since many of these publications have been written in German, and most German publications are not included in the major English language abstracting services, Anthropological Abstracts offers a convenient source of information for anthropologists and social scientists in general who do not read German, to become aware of anthropological research and publications in German-speaking countries. Included are journal articles, monographs, anthologies, exhibition catalogs, yearbooks, etc. Most abstracts are authored by the editor, others are specified accordingly. This journal is edited by Ulrich Oberdiek since 1993 (formerly: Abstracts in German Anthropology; since 2002: Anthropological Abstracts).
Wie sängen wir SEINEN Gesang auf dem Boden der Fremde!
Der Band schildert die Musikgeschichte des Aschkenas - die Kultur des jüdischen Europas -, die sich als moderne Metapher für das biblische Zweistromland - Mesopotamien/Naharaim/Babylon -entfaltet. Sie symbolisiert Inbegriffe des Überlebens im Exil unter der Herausforderung, den Gesang von Gott "auf dem Boden der Fremde" zu singen. Dabei entsteht eine kollektive Biografie des jüdischen Europas. Thematisiert werden die Lebenswelten anonymer Musiker und Musikerinnen, die Klangwelten der Musik in der Synagoge oder auf der Kleinkunstbühne, die Beiträge zum Zweistromland von Kantoren, Musikwissenschaftlern und Intellektuellen, sowie berühmten Musikern und Künstlern. Die Musik des Aschkenas lässt sich als eine Chronik von Tragödie und Überleben beschreiben, von der zerstörten Welt der Schoah bis zur Rückkehr ins jüdische Europa des 21. Jahrhunderts, mitsamt allen Paradoxen der jüdischen Geschichte der Moderne.
Indian Sun
A Times, Spectator, TLS and BBC Music Magazine Book of the YearOver eight decades, Ravi Shankar was India's greatest cultural ambassador who took Indian classical music to the world's leading concert halls and festivals, charting the map for those who followed. Renowned for his association with The Beatles - teaching George Harrison sitar - Shankar turning the Sixties generation on to Indian music, astonishing the crowds at Woodstock, Monterey Pop and the Concert for Bangladesh with his virtuosity. He radically reshaped jazz and Western classical music as well as writing film scores, including Pather Panchali and Gandhi, and transformed awareness of Indian culture in the process.Indian Sun is the first biography of Ravi Shankar. Benefitting from unprecedented access to family archives, Oliver Craske paints a vivid picture of a captivating, restless workaholic, who lived a passionate and extraordinary life - from his childhood in his brother's dance troupe, through intensive study of the sitar, to his revival of the national music scene; and from the 1950s, a pioneering international career that ultimately made his name synonymous with India.
Humanismus polyphon
Wie präsentiert sich der Humanismus im Zeitalter der Globalisierung? Welche Alternativen bieten sich dem traditionellen, oft ethnozentrisch geprägten europäischen Humanismus im 21. Jahrhundert? Die aktuelle globale, an neuen Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten, aber auch an kulturellen und religiösen Konflikten reiche Weltlage, stellt die modernen Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften vor brisante Fragen. Ausgehend von verschiedenen Disziplinen und kulturellen Kontexten reflektieren und diskutieren die Beiträge des transdisziplinären Bandes den Humanismus im Zeitalter der Globalisierung.
Sonora
"The bloodsucking bat, construction of bows and arrows, the punishment for adultery among the Apaches... all was grist that dropped into the industrious mill of Father Pfefferkorn's eyes, ears, and brain."—Saturday Review "To be read for enjoyment; nevertheless, the historian will find in it a wealth of information that has been shrewdly appraised, carefully sifted, and creditably related."—Catholic Historical Review "Of interest not only to the historian but to the geographer and anthropologist."—Pacific Historical Review
Schrift im Raum
Alexander H. Schwan nimmt den bekannten Vergleich von Tanzen und Schreiben neu in den Blick und entwickelt erstmals eine umfassende Poetik der Bewegung als körperliche Schrift: écriture corporelle. Im intensiven Dialog mit Schrift- und Bildtheorien analysiert er herausragende Arbeiten postmoderner und zeitgenössischer Choreographie, die Tanzbewegungen als ephemere Einschreibung im Raum organisieren. Er zeigt exemplarisch auf, wie diese Körperfigurationen als Veränderung eines imaginären Schriftbildes betrachtet werden können. So eröffnet die Studie wichtige theoretische Perspektiven für die Tanzwissenschaft und verändert die Wahrnehmung von Bewegung: Tanz wird sichtbar als flüchtiges Schreiben und unlesbare Schrift im Raum.
Beyond the Score
In Beyond the Score: Music as Performance, author Nicholas Cook supplants the traditional musicological notion of music as writing, asserting instead that it is as performance that music is loved, understood, and consumed. This book reconceives music as an activity through which meaning is generated in real time, as Cook rethinks familiar assumptions and develops new approaches. Focusing primarily but not exclusively on the Western 'art' tradition, Cook explores perspectives that range from close listening to computational analysis, from ethnography to the study of recordings, and from the social relations constructed through performance to the performing (and listening) body. In doing so, h...
A Mediated Magic
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