Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - African drumming and dancing

Thanks for the recommendation.

My work explores the redefinition of African drumming, dancing, and sold as a new inventions. So the only way for me  to avoid throwing the baby with the bath-water is to give, where is deem fit, "epistemological sites to African voices." In the same vein acknowledge ADD as a political project, partly because it is a reaction to colonialism and partly because it is a child of the process of decolonization.

On Thursday, 2 August 2018 23:03:55 UTC+2, Kwabena Parry wrote:

I would recommend that in our works we give adequate epistemological sites to African voices.  The tome of works of Emeritus Professor JH Kwabena Nketia is central to African classical music and dance.  I am not discounting Shusterman's works but let us not privilege Western works over African ones. Just a thought. 

Kwabena Akurang-Parry

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Abstract - 

African drumming and dancing (ADD) improves self-consciousness, reflexivity and heightens attentiveness. 

Dance and rhythm are composed of multiple steps in time and space. Learning each beat/dance step 

separately focuses attention on specific body parts like the arms, neck, feet and spinal column. 

This increases self-consciousness and by extension improves the quality of life.

The meta-theory of the study is Richard Shusterman's somaeastics -

understanding of the body as formable and a place of "sensory aesthetic appreciation". 

Body, mind and culture constitute the basis of both conscious/unconscious, actions/reactions. 

Therefore, to maximize human potential requires increased consciousness of body and feeling. 

The basic empirical material is interviews with practitioners of ADD in Sweden.

The study found ADD-exercises engage physically, mentally and emotionally. 

Experiences like the feeling of strong commitment or responsiveness cultivated through these drills are 

transferable to other areas of daily life such as to improve relationship with family and friends, 

coworkers and other social contexts.

 

Keywords: Self-consciousness, body, soul, culture, drums, dance, experience, mindfulness

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