Seize the Dance: Baaka Musical Life and the Ethnography of Performance

by Michelle Kisliuk

Book Overview

"Pygmy music" has captivated students and scholars of anthropology and music for decades if not centuries, but until now this aspect of their culture has never been described in a work that is at once vividly engaging, intellectually rigorous, and self-consciously aware of the ironies of representation. Seize the Dance is an ethnomusical study focused on the music and dance of BaAka forest people, who live in the Lobaye region of the Central African...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195308697
• ISBN13: 9780195308693
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"