Sensational Knowledge: Embodying Culture Through Japanese Dance - Brossura

Hahn, Tomie

Brossura

ISBN 10: 081956835X ISBN 13: 9780819568359

Casa editrice: Wesleyan Univ Pr, 2007

Riassunto

How do music and dance reveal the ways in which a community interacts with the world? How are the senses used in communicating cultural knowledge? In Sensational Knowledge, ethnomusicologist and dancer Tomie Hahn uncovers the process and nuances of learning nihon buyo, a traditional Japanese dance form. She uses case studies of dancers at all levels, as well as her own firsthand experiences, to investigate the complex language of bodies, especially across cultural divides. Paying particular attention to the effect of body-to-body transmission, and how culturally constructed processes of transmission influence our sense of self, Hahn argues that the senses facilitate the construction of “boundaries of existence” that define our physical and social worlds. In this flowing and personal text, Hahn reveals the ways in which culture shapes our attendance to various sensoria, and how our interpretation of sensory information shapes our individual realities. An included DVD provides visual examples.

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L'autore:

TOMIE HAHN is an associate professor in the department of the arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. A performer and student of Japanese dance since the age of four, she has been awarded natori-- the professional stage title of Samie Tachibana--from the Tachibana School in Tokyo.

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Book by Hahn Tomie

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• Editore: Wesleyan Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 081956835X
• ISBN 13: 9780819568359
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 197