BL ST 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: African Art, Sanza, Music Of Africa
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Create community / safe haven from the reality around leimert park (economic, social, cultural) 1 tradition - dance: tiv people, basic verb, vine to dance . Dance with further worlds of artistic happenings. Dance = style of using bodies, objects, and things to intensify the aliveness of an image, performance, or work of art. 1. traditions of performance have evolved for centuries that value aliveness in performance: critical traditions. Nigerians judge what is a good performance over a poor performance (they value aliveness, stylistic, propulsive) Motion - enlivens stillness with precisely contrastive logic utilized by an ngbaka sculptor who carved a portion of a musical instrument in the form of a human frame to add body to beauty in sound. Permeates african life and function - religious ceremonies and rituals, give guidance, teach, tell stories, stages of life and death, political guidance. Impact of music is tantamount and beautiful.
