Rhythms of earth : a global anthropology of dance seen in a cross cultural perspective
Film et Vidéo
- Auteurs : Lomax Alan (1915-2002) ; Paulay Forrestine ;
- Editeurs : Watertown, Mass. Documentary Educational Resources [distrib.] ;
- Date d'édition : 2008
- Sujets : Ethnomusicologie -- DVD, Danse, Films ethnographiques DVD
- Comprend : Dance & human history, 1974 (40 min), Palm play, 1977 (27 min), Step style, 1977 (30 min), The longest trail, 1984 (59 min)
- Langue(s) : Indéterminée
- Description matérielle : 1 DVD (2 h 36 min), : Coul., son.
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
Notes
Sous-titres en anglais ; Bonus : Alan Lomax in conversation with Robert Gardner from Screening Room (1975) 34 min ; Forrestine Paulay interview (2006) 17 min ; Michael Del Rio (Global Jukebox programmer) in conversation with anthropologist and biostatistician Michael Flory (2006) 22 min ; Michael Flory interview (2008) 16 min ; Global Jukebox demonstration (1993) 10 min. ; This disc also contains 177 pages of written material as PDF files that can be accessed with my computer (PC) or Finder (Mac) and opened and printed with Adobe Acrobat Reader : Transcriptions of Dance & Human History, Step Style, Palm Play, and Screening Room ; Handbook for The Longest Trail- by Alan Lomax and Forrestine Paulay ; 'Performance Style Research'- article by Anna Lomax Wood that contextualizes the Choreometrics project and contains extensive bibliographies ; 'Choreometrics and Ethnographic Film'- article by Alan Lomax ; 'Toward an Ethnographic Film Archive'- article by Alan Lomax ; 'Alan Lomax: a Remembrance'- article by John Bishop
Résumé
Beginning in the late 1950s, Alan Lomax and his associates undertook a monumental study of the relationship between style in song and dance cross-culturally. It began with Cantometrics which developed a common language description for the many variables in performance style in the diverse cultures of the world and measured how those variables clustered geographically and in relation to means of subsistence and aspects of social organization. Choreometrics continued this investigation into dance and movement.