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Author(s): Brian Schrag
ISBN(s): 9781000331486, 1000331482
Edition: 1
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Year: 2021
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1000331482
ISBN 13: 9781000331486
Author: Brian Schrag

Artistic Dynamos: An Ethnography on Music in Central African Kingdoms uses stories and research from Ngiembɔɔn communities of Central and West Cameroon as touchstones for proposing new approaches to arts scholarship and community development. Building on the results of ethnographic research, artistic action is viewed through the lens of communication. This view brings a picture of increased cultural energy in the enactment of artistic genres—those with melodic, rhythmic, poetic, dramatic, visual, and performative features. Schrag’s treatise will change how scholars across disciplines understand and engage with the arts. This volume offers methods for improved scholarship, resulting in communities living better lives. The author’s website contains the video and audio recordings discussed in the book, plus full color versions of many photos and diagrams. www.ArtisticDynamos.com

Artistic Dynamos An Ethnography on Music in Central African Kingdoms 1st Table of contents:

1. Setting the Stage: From Humble Learning to Artistic Communication

  • The Grand, Multi-Sited Conversation

  • Research Personality

  • Methods Evolve

  • Everyone Holds a Complex Position Vis-à-Vis Everyone Else

  • Everyone Should Benefit from Research

  • Root Research in Reality

  • Expect Multiple Locations

  • Artistic Action as Communication

    • View

    • Foundational Plane: Location(s) and Time(s)

    • Communicators

    • Infrastructures

    • Message(s)

    • Tangible Artistry

    • Reciprocity

  • Artistic Communication Genres

  • Clarifying Recording Events

  • Clue to Bamiléké Vitality One: Arts as Communication

  • Note

2. First Meetings: Bamiléké Communities in Ethnographic and Artistic Context

  • First Roads Home

  • Emigration, les Troubles, and Development of the Cameroonian Nation

  • The Ngiembɔɔn Language

  • Physical Environment

  • Economic Organization

  • Time

  • Social and Religious Organization

  • Competition in Solidarity

  • Overview of Artistic Resources

    • Performed Genres

    • Physically Crafted Genres

    • Objects Associated with Dance Groups in Balessing

    • Objects and Outfits Reserved for Kings, Élites, and Members of Their Families

    • Objects Related to Ceremonies and Rituals

    • Hats, Stools, Canes, and Jewelry

  • Clue to Bamiléké Vitality Two: Arts in Social Tension

  • Notes

3. Discovery at Home: The Stable|Malleable Divide

  • Research Context and Methods

  • Malleable: Arts Without Locational or Temporal Regularity

    • Lefemé

    • Salient Life Events: Birth, Marriage, and Death

      • Birth

      • Marriage

      • Death: The Week of Sadness

      • Death: The Phase of Joy

    • Individually Enacted Arts

    • Sundry

  • Stable: Arts with Locational and Temporal Regularity

    • Location

    • Communicators

    • Social Infrastructure

    • Objectives

    • Internal Organization

    • Financial Organization

    • Temporal Organization

    • Artistic Infrastructure

    • Instruments

    • Composition

    • Women’s Dances (Lǔŋo Panzwe)

    • Mixed Dances

    • Messages

  • Clue to Bamiléké Vitality Three: Arts as Stable or Malleable

  • Notes

4. Confirmation from a Distance: The Inner Life of an Urban Dance Association

  • Discovering DAKASTUM’s Interior Life

  • Social Infrastructure

  • Demographics

  • Initiating and Maintaining Membership

  • Internal Organization

  • Artistic Infrastructure: Kànɔ̀ɔn

  • Enactment Contexts

    • Rehearsals

    • Death-Related Enactments

    • Enactments Tied to Outside Events

  • Navigating Authenticity and Modernity

  • A Road to Nkem Legwé in Batcham

  • DAKASTUM After 2006

  • Clue to Bamiléké Vitality Four: Arts in Feedback Resonance

  • Notes

5. Necessary Rigor: Multi-Artistic Description of One Enactment of One Communication Genre

  • Analytical Approach

  • Artistic Event

  • Event Features

  • The Event Seen Through Five Euroamerican Arts Lenses

    • Music Features

      • Rhythm

      • Occasionally Sounded Instruments

      • Song Form

      • Tonal Inventory

      • Vocal Techniques

    • Verbal Features

      • Verbal Improvisation

      • Muntu References

      • Values Communicated

    • Dance Features

    • Drama Features

    • Visual Features

  • Observations on Analyzing Genres

  • Clue to Bamiléké Vitality Five: Arts as They Exist

  • Notes

6. Better Futures: Stable|Malleable Dynamos in Community Thriving

  • Unveiling the Bamiléké Vitality Mosaic

  • Clues to Understanding

  • Deeper Insight: The Stable|Malleable, or Artistic Dynamo

  • The Stable|Malleable Dynamo in Other Contexts

  • Confident Community Engagement

  • Measuring Heaven Locally

  • Acting for Thriving: A Summary

  • Ethnoarts

  • Act One, Once More Revisited

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