先日見つけた超～お気に入りCDをアマゾンで見つけて（しかも入手した３が6000円で売っていた(-_-;)、ついでにいろいろ検索かけてたら、こんなの見つけました。Caribbean Dance from Abakua to Zouk: How Movement Shapes Identity
(ペーパーバック、408ページ)
Susanna Sloat (編集)
外貨参考価格: $24.95
価格： ￥ 2,701 （税込）
出版社: Univ Pr of Florida (2005/7/19)
Book Description
Caribbean Dance from Abakua to Zouk is an unprecedented overview of the dances from each of this region's major islands and the complex, fused, and layered cultures that have given birth to them. The authors in this collection, from distinguished cultural leaders to highly innovative choreographers, reveal how dance shapes personal, communal, and national identity. Their essays also show how Caribbean rhythms, dances, fragments of movements, and even attitudes toward movement reach beyond the islands and through the extensive West Indian diaspora communities in North America, Latin America, and Europe to be embraced by the world at large.
A range of approaches, from the anthropological to the literary and from the practical to the creative, allows for a thorough exploration of these dances in the distinct yet interrelated contexts of social history, tradition/ritual, and performance. Connections are made among a fascinating array of dances, both familiar and little known, from culturally based to newly created performance pieces. Particular emphasis is placed on the African contribution in making Caribbean dance distinctive. An extensive glossary of terms and more than 30 illustrations round out the book to make it the most complete resource on Caribbean dance to date.
About the Author
Susanna Sloat is a writer, editor, and arts consultant in New York City. She has written extensively on modern, postmodern, and many forms of ethnic dance as an associate editor of Attitude--The Dancers' Magazine.
編集者はNY在住のライターさん…気になります。個人的には、ABAKUAからZOUKまでって取り上げ方がニクい。まさかNYで師匠のクラスとったことある人じゃないよね？(^^;ちょっとーーーしかもなんかエライ気になるぞこの紹介文っ！うう…
あとこんなのもありました。
Praising His Name in the Dance: Spirit Possession in the Spiritual Baptist Faith and Orisha Work in Trinidad, West Indies (Studies in Latin America and the Caribbean)
(ハードカバー、317ページ)
Kenneth Anthony Lum (著)
"The island of Trinidad is situated at the end of the Caribbean archipelago which stretches from Florida in North America to Venezuela in South America..."
価格： ￥ 16,806 （税込）
出版社: Harwood Academic Pub (2000/2/1)
Book Description
The author provides a detailed portrait of the Spiritual Baptist Faith and Orisha Work, two religions that share a common basis in the traditional religion of the Yoruba in West Africa. Specifically, the author studies the phenomenon of spirit possession, an integral aspect of worship in both religions. In the Spiritual Baptist Faith, a person who is possessed by the Holy Spirit retains his or her own identity, while in Orisha Work, those who are possessed by the orishas (spirits), become the spirits. Both types of possession are based on the Yoruba concept of self in which identity is dependent on the spirit which animates a physical body. This common basis of religions enables the respective populations to interact extensively and explains why an individual can experience both types of spiritual possession.
うむむむむ…興味深し…
でもその前にCD一気に1,2,5,7,があったので買っちゃいました。
英語力も乏しいので、こんな分厚いの読んだ日にゃあ2ページごとに涎つけちまいそうです。いや、全部PCにぶちこんでweb翻訳して付け合せな読み方すれば読みきれるか？
…とまあ、時間もお金もないんで、誰か読んだことある人っ(^^;感想聞かせてくださいw
いや、その内、しっかり自分で読んでみたいな…うん(^^;
↑結局自分用覚書だったりする…w