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Music is the most popular and dynamic aspect
of Caribbean expressive culture. Genres like salsa, merengue,
reggae, calypso and bachata are indication of diversity and colorful
history of the islands. As a part of the international research program
Nordic Spaces, the project Dance in Nordic Spaces aims to investigate
dance and dancing as participants in the development of "Norden",
with a focus on comparative perspectives from the late 19th through
the 20th century. Dance research needs resources It is research done with fairly soft methods.
Music and dance are expressions of man's deep feelings. Feeling
goes with dance. Dance is personal but also greatly bound by
society. It plumbs the depths of man's and society's world views.
Actually this kind of dance research is learning about the human
being through dance. Interdisciplinary soundscape project The best thing about soundscape research is
that there are no rigid limits drawn between science and art
or between various domains of science. We can't hear soundscape
as pieces of sound that correspond to the research subjects of
universities. The Balkan project is one of the current research
projects in the Department of Folk Tradition. Since the collapse
of the centralized administration in the Eastern bloc countries,
the culture that used to be banned is back. For example, the
research of Gypsy music in Bulgaria and Macedonia is possible
again. On the other hand there are historical conflicts in the
background that also influence the music. Music, Living Body and (E)motion Singers produce their voice through body’s inner movements. The players
feel tacitly their instruments as well as features of musical style.
Dancers transform in their bodies audible music to a kinaesthetic-visual
form. Music has the ability to signify by referring to basic experiences
of the embodied human being, and much of the expressive power of music
emerges originally from the domain of the corporeal. Dance Practices in Past and Present The research
project Dance Practices in Past and Present gains to undertake a wider scope
of dance practices and dance analysis in multidisciplinary perspectives. The
study introduces different genres of dance, historical folk dance, African
dance and Western contemporary dance. The key nominators for the study are
the social nature of dance, and individual as well as cultural patterns of
choreography. The Geography of Beat - research on popular music goes international Research problems of popular music are to be
found in history and in the present day, from the birth of Finnish
rock culture to the Finnish Rave culture. The vanishing cultures of arctic peoples Those cultures have a linear history of some
10,000 to 30,000 years. Their musical cultures are primitive,
their elements come from the early times of modern Homo Sapiens.
Wada sjongé haja - the world becomes a song "As I sing, I become transformed into
the shape of my forefathers. Into the shape my forbears have
moulded for me. Then I can see that miraculous world: what did
happen to my familiar surroundings? I am arriving in a big camp.
What happened to me? I see my father and mother there..." |
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