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Return Beat - Interfacing With Our Interface: Music and Spirituality

Autor Olugbenga Taiwo
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 mai 2021
This book represents a significant contribution to debates about identity, the arts and spirituality. Written in an autoethnographic style, the author charts his own journey into understanding the interface between himself, culture and digital technology. He charts a course through West African orate and literate traditions and their relationship to the transatlantic trade of enslaved Africans, describing how they became a source of so many dance traditions in Europe and the Americas, such as capoeira, Afro Brazilian and Cuban movement, Hip Hop and Samba. He enters into a detailed analysis of Western linear time and the African curved time; the flux of the Return Beat. He sets out a description of the Yoruba religion of the Orishas; centred around the figure of Olodumare and the concept of Ashe, the animating force of the natural world. As a practitioner of T¿ai Chi Ch¿uan, he draws comparisons with Chinese spiritual practice and other philosophical traditions, always linking these with the movement of the body both as generative forces and reflective frames. He constructs the framework of the Return Beat, physical journal and mobile studio practice from an understanding of many intercultural, conceptual and performative practices, embodied over his career as a performer.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781787079397
ISBN-10: 1787079392
Pagini: 313
Dimensiuni: 150 x 225 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Peter Lang Copyright AG
Seria Music and Spirituality


Notă biografică

Olu Taiwo is a senior lecturer in Physical theatre, Acting and Movement at the University of Winchester. He has a background in Fine art, Street performance art, African percussion and various martial arts including T'ai Chi Ch'uan and Capoeira. He has performed nationally and internationally in performances and lecture demonstrations promoting concepts surrounding practice as research, including how practice explores relationships between 'effort', and 'performative actions'. He investigates how with performatively as 'individuals' we interface with the increasing digital complexity regarding our experience in the twenty-first century.

Cuprins

List of Figures - List of Tables - Dedication and Acknowledgements - Pre-face - The Return Beat - Performance Philosophy - Open Door - A Complex of Questions - Art, Ritual, Culture and Society - The Performative Atrium - The Physical Journal - Performances with Personal Commentary - Choreological Methodology: Choreutics - Choreological Methodology: Eukinetics Changes in Performative Flux - A Return to Dimension 1 - Bibliography - Glossary - Index.