This paper examines the aesthetics of Ewe music and dance from a multidisciplinary perspective, and the biological, socioeconomic, religious, and political factors that shape Ewe music and dance and form the basis of their evaluation. It focuses on the Ewe music and dance and culture but draws from ...

This paper attempts to discuss the essential movements of Ewe music and dance. In doing so, the author recognizes the fact that in Ewe societies just like other African communities, the music and dance are closely intertwined. Their performance usually integrates the visual arts, such as costume,...

A collection of 10 papers discuss the contribution that African culture has made to the worlds of: music; language; cinema; dance; fashion; science; philosophy; and theatre. The aim is to reassess the importance of African creativity and its influence on popular culture throughout the world. Papers ...

The use of the performing arts -- drama, poetry, story-telling, puppetry, music, song, and dance -- for community education and development in Africa is an age-old tradition. In more recent times, however, the new "Popular theatre" movement, in places such as Botswana, Ghana, and the Northern parts ...

This ethnographical study tries to put in relation the artistic filiation, the body and the transmission of the knowledges. The rustic communities are submitted to a massive drift from the land, the people arrive in town with their cultures and their past. A large number of techniques and...

This book brings together essays on performing arts, paying special attention to those used to support education, training and instruction, with special reference to the Third World. Attention is paid to the indigenous performing arts, to popular theatre as well as to theatre for development. In...

The level of misinterpretation place on some of our indigenous dance movement has really de-emphasis its communicative potency. In Africa, dance movements are perfectly combined, nice ingenuity in its creation and aesthetically attractive. All these qualities found in our indigenous dance movement, ...

The functions festivals fulfill within contemporary film culture extend beyond the exhibition of completed films; many festivals have attained the role of a producer in recent years. The Berlin International Film Festival launched the World Cinema Fund (WCF) in 2005 to financially support film...

Dance, culture and marriage have a tapestry of relationship and dependability. The inviolability in their relationships cannot be quantified. In culture, dance and marriage are provided with soothing environment to strive and survive and vice-versa. In other words, culture is the substratum for the ...

This paper presents an overview exposition and critical reflection on the evolution and functionality of the pre-colonial African Music and dance among the Gusii of south-western Kenya. It seeks to address fundamental issues that are on the verge of being forgotten especially by the youth of this...