The Performing Arts: Music and Dance

The Performing Arts: Music and Dance
General Editor’s Preface
Table of Contents
Introduction (John Blacking
PART ONE: MUSIC AND DANCE IN SOCIETY: GENERAL PERSPECTIVES
The Study of Man as Music-Maker (John Blacking)
Toward a Cross-Cultural Conceptualization of Dance and Some Correlate Considerations (Judith Lynne Hanna)
Culture Change: Functional and Dysfunctional Expressions of Dance, a Form of Affective Culture (Joann W. Kealiinohomoku)
PART TWO: CASE STUDIES IN DANCE
Totemic Dances of Armenia (E. Kh. Petrosian)
Kolo na Kolu: The Round upon Round in Yugoslavia (Olivera Mladenovic)
The Study of Folk Dancing in the Soviet Union: Its State and Tasks (M. la. Zhornitskaia)
PART THREE: CROSS-CULTURAL STUDIES OF THE PERFORMING ARTS
Continuity and Discontinuity in Song Styles: An Ordinal Cross-Cultural Classification (S. Lee Seaton and Karen Ann Watson)
Rice-Planting Music of Chindo (Korea) and the Chugoku Region (Japan) (Ruriko Uchida)
The Status of Women in the Performing Arts of India and Iberia: Cross-Cultural Perspectives from Historical Accounts and Field Reports (Bonnie C. Wade and Ann M. Pescatello)
PART FOUR: CASE STUDIES IN MUSIC AND FOLKLORE FROM ASIA AND EASTERN EUROPE
The Functions of Folk Songs in Vietnam (Cong-Huyen-Ton-Nu Nha-Trang)
The Aboriginal Music of Taiwan (Midori D. Himeno)
Contemporary Music of the Maclay Coast (B. N. Putilov)
Rituals and Songs of Weather in Georgian Poetic Folklore (Ksenia Sikharulidze)
On the Hungarian Variants of South Slavic Folk Songs and Tales (Madeleine V. Andjelić)
The Rumanian Folklore Calendar and Its Age Categories (Emilia Comisel)
PART FIVE: ASPECTS OF THE MUSICAL PROCESS
The Role of Songs for Children in the Formation of Musical Perception (Ghizela Suliteanu)
Pattern Perception and Recognition in African Music (Gerhard Kubik)
Tactility as an Aesthetic Consideration in African Music (Robert Kauffman)
Stress Behavior in Musicolinguistics (Anoop C. Chandola)
PART SIX: MUSIC AND DANCE IN AFRICA AND THE NEW WORLD
Igeri Ututu: An Igbo Folk Requiem Music Dance Ritual (C. O. Okoreaffia)
Ngoma Music Among the Zulu (Elkin Thamsanga Sithole)
The Possibility of Objective Rhythmic Evidence for African Influence in Afro-American Music (Hewitt Pantaleoni)
Music and Dance as Expressions of Religious Worship in Jamaica (Joseph G. Moore)
Space Rock: Music and Dance of the Electronic Era (Gertrude P. Kurath)
Biographical Notes
Index of Names
Index of Subjects