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Author: Anonym Publisher: ISBN: 9783346216984 Category : Languages : en Pages : 32
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Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject African Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, Mount Kenya University (Mount Kenya University), course: Master Degree in History(Arts), language: English, abstract: Song and dance are powerful cultural medium in any society. Song and dance were not only used as a preserver but also a transmitter of history. Kamba community expressed their feeling through song and dance. Song and dance were used in all aspects and perspectives of the Kamba community. This study focuses on the characteristics of Kamba song and dance in the precolonial period. The community originally occupied Makueni, Machakos and Kitui before expanding to other parts of the country. The study seeks discuss the different cultural practices that song and dance was practiced as well as the different types of song and dance and the occasions when they were practiced. Clearly, there is no doubt that song and dance are powerful conveyers and transmitters of a society's history. Indeed, song and dance were used as an avenue of communication. Song and dance in every community has its own characteristics that make it distinct from the other communities. Kamba songs and dance has been part of oral literature which has been passed from one generation to the other through stories and testimonies. The community history, culture and identity were passed on from one generation to the other through song and dance. Traditional musical instruments were also used. Kamba song and dance was utilitarian hence was used as an aspect of identity to the community. With colonization, urbanization and western cultural influences, it is evident that traditional Kamba song and dance have decreased due to the emergence of new idioms that combine African and western elements. Changes to Kamba song and dance occurred as a result of external cultures and the interactions among African societies. Therefore, this study is an eye opener to the dying Kamba traditional song and dance.
Author: Anonym Publisher: ISBN: 9783346216984 Category : Languages : en Pages : 32
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Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject African Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, Mount Kenya University (Mount Kenya University), course: Master Degree in History(Arts), language: English, abstract: Song and dance are powerful cultural medium in any society. Song and dance were not only used as a preserver but also a transmitter of history. Kamba community expressed their feeling through song and dance. Song and dance were used in all aspects and perspectives of the Kamba community. This study focuses on the characteristics of Kamba song and dance in the precolonial period. The community originally occupied Makueni, Machakos and Kitui before expanding to other parts of the country. The study seeks discuss the different cultural practices that song and dance was practiced as well as the different types of song and dance and the occasions when they were practiced. Clearly, there is no doubt that song and dance are powerful conveyers and transmitters of a society's history. Indeed, song and dance were used as an avenue of communication. Song and dance in every community has its own characteristics that make it distinct from the other communities. Kamba songs and dance has been part of oral literature which has been passed from one generation to the other through stories and testimonies. The community history, culture and identity were passed on from one generation to the other through song and dance. Traditional musical instruments were also used. Kamba song and dance was utilitarian hence was used as an aspect of identity to the community. With colonization, urbanization and western cultural influences, it is evident that traditional Kamba song and dance have decreased due to the emergence of new idioms that combine African and western elements. Changes to Kamba song and dance occurred as a result of external cultures and the interactions among African societies. Therefore, this study is an eye opener to the dying Kamba traditional song and dance.
Author: Evans Omosa Nyamwaka Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3346519120 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 28
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Academic Paper from the year 2021 in the subject Art - History of Art, grade: 1, , course: Historical Knowledge, language: English, abstract: This paper presents an overview exposition and critical reflection on the role played by oral arts and performance throught history as far as the preservation of African indigenous knowledge and moral ethics is concerned.This study takes songs and dances among the Gusii of south-western Kenya as its unit of study . It seeks to address fundamental issues that are in the verge of being forgotten especially by the youth of this generation. It argues that music and dance among the Gusii have traditional roots and serves as a source of understanding the cultural history of the community as part of indigenous knowledge moral and societal ethics. Indeed, without knowledge of a community’s cultural history, the historical destiny, indigenous knowledge and moral education cannot be easily comprehended. This history makes it one of the most essential genres that the Gusii community employs to explore the past indigenous education through musical and dance generic forms. This paper proceeds from the premise that, in the pre-colonial times, the Gusii had evolved elaborate music and dance forms conditioned by their social and natural environments. It can also established in this discussion that African music and dance, as practised by the Gusii nurtured, enhanced, preserved and brought up emotionally, psychologically, ethically, socially stable and a unitary indigenous community. The theories employed to explain the phenomenon of the functionality of among the Gusii pre-colonial music and dance indigenous knowledge preservation and moral education were, Evolution, Diffusion, functionalism and theories of dance. The Study methodology into historical enquiry of the pre-colonial music and dance was carried out in three major phases as follows; employing data collection techniques on a systematic basis beginning with secondary sources in libraries, the marshalling of primary source materials in the Kenya National Archives, and the gathering of data through oral interviews and observations in the research field. In this study, respondents were selected through snowball and purposive sampling techniques in order to obtain key custodians of the Gusii cultural history. Oral interviews were conducted between 1996 and 1998.Respondents included sixty elderly men and women from Gusii land thought to be knowledgeable on the community’s cultural history.
Author: Natalie Curtis Burlin Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 9780486420691 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 212
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Authentic regional singings and sayings feature folklore from the Ndau tribe of Portuguese East Africa and Zulus of South Africa: labor chants, dances, laments, songs of war, meditation, and love, plus proverbs, legends, fables. Extensive editorial commentary, metrical and literal translations, notes on pronunciation.
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Author: Natalie Curtis Burlin
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Author: Natalie Curtis Burlin
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